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“We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

#ursula k. le guin #quotes

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Louise Bourgeois, 10 AM is When You Came to Me, 2006

#art #hands #ted aesthetic

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#comic #grief

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yiqing yin in haute couture ateliers: the artisans of fashion - hélène farnault (2014)

#fashion #white aesthetic #ghost tag

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Jewelry by Ecclesia

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#jewelry #want

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

#words and pictures #spring

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Mamuor Majeng by Luiz Alberto Rodriguez for Another Man Magazine Volume II

#photography #fashion

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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.

#quotes #poetry #hunger #damn

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

#quotes #to love life

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William Merritt Chase, Seventeenth century lady, detail (1895)

#art

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Frances Elizabeth Wynne - Beast on a Heron (1854-64)

#art

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Please Pour Some Rain! (2018) by Taiwanese textile and quilt artist, Lin Hsin-Chen (born in 1974)

#art #fleur #dandelion

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Blackwater Dive

2024, hand bleached and dyed denim, cotton batting and thread

inspired by blackwater photography of plankton! this was my first time layering bleach painting. All the silhouettes were painted with bleaching gel, loosely tie dyed, and then bleached again to make the highlights. I quilted the piece using my free motion foot to outline each individual animal and tacked down the rest of the quilt with small satin stitches that remind me of marine snow. I dyed bias tape to match. super happy with this one and excited to show it in a gallery setting soon!

#art #rainbow

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look from selkie's "lucy" collection .

#fashion #light aesthetic

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Mary Oliver, from “The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac”, Blue Horses

#poetry #to love life

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Zakaria Dau by Edwin Zhang for Wonderland China Magazine December 2023

#fashion

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Christian Dior Spring 1998

#fashion #this collection is so erte coded i love it