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Betty Blue (1986)

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Miller's Girl (2024)

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“ENSEMBLE je suis le mot ‘ensemble’ je reviens de loin je suis fatigué (…) mon histoire est belle votre mémoire ingrate inconstante suicidaire j'ai volé de bouche en bouche sur les ruines du temps j'ai redonné espoir aux heures les plus sombres les yeux riaient à me dire à m'entendre j'étais l'heureuse nouvelle le ciment des révoltes source vive pour tant d'assoiffés de vaincus de proscrits rien de grand n'a pu se faire sans moi rien d'humain rien qui vaille de vivre (…) qu'avez-vous fait ? que faites-vous ? je vous fais peur ? (…) je vous ai tant aimés”

—          - Pierre Meunier -        Du fond des gorges (2011)

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String Figuring Woman

By Fuyuko Matsui

Traditional art

Colour on silk

2013

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Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)

Directed by Paul Schrader

Production design by Eiko Ishioka

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When Mary Shelly wrote "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other" god I really felt that

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Marcel Roux - The hands of death approach (1908)

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Sidney Meteyard - Hope Comforting Love in Bondage (1901)

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tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

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The Holdovers (Alexander Payne, 2023)

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Marisa Adesman (American, 1991) - Glass Half (n.d.)

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All the Sins of Sodom (Joseph W. Sarno, 1968)

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Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955

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“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

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“Envy is secret admiration. An admirer who feels that he cannot become happy by abandoning himself to it chooses to be envious of that which he admires. So he speaks another language wherein that which he actually admires is a trifle, a rather stupid, insipid, peculiar, and exaggerated thing. Admiration is happy self-surrender; envy is unhappy self-assertion.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

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Charles Bukowski, "note on the tigress," from The People Look Like Flowers At Last