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firstfullmoon · 2 months
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If you persevere, in time you will have an entirely different problem – not that life is meaningless, but rather that life has almost too much meaning. As the scales fall from your eyes the world rushes into focus, presenting itself with a kind of vibrational eloquence that can, at first, be almost overwhelming. Everything shimmers, everything clarifies, everything wrestles for your attention. Trees feel super-real, their roots plunged into the earth, their branches stretching to the sky, birds are flesh and blood souls, fragile with life, the sky unfolds and rolls, the ocean crashes, people fascinate, books are beautiful, children are whirling dynamos of chaos, dogs bark and cats meow, flowers shout, your neighbour glows, and God runs like a helix through all things. The world awaits you, humming with meaning. You are alive with potential. You are not dead.
— Nick Cave on getting clean, Red Hand Files #258
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The Birthday Party in an abandoned church in London, October 22 1981
📸: David Corio
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Nick Cave on A.I.
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lioness--hart · 8 months
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Hey, it's okay. Nick Cave's letter to a despairing fan, okay?
Dear Valerio, You are right to be worried about your growing feelings of cynicism and you need to take action to protect yourself and those around you, especially your child. Cynicism is not a neutral position — and although it asks almost nothing of us, it is highly infectious and unbelievably destructive. In my view, it is the most common and easy of evils. I know this because much of my early life was spent holding the world and the people in it in contempt. It was a position both seductive and indulgent. The truth is, I was young and had no idea what was coming down the line. I lacked the knowledge, the foresight, the self-awareness. I just didn’t know. It took a devastation to teach me the preciousness of life and the essential goodness of people. It took a devastation to reveal the precariousness of the world, of its very soul, to understand that it was crying out for help. It took a devastation to understand the idea of mortal value, and it took a devastation to find hope. Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, Valerio, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes, keeps the devil down in the hole. It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending. It says the world is worth believing in. In time, we come to find that it is so.
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389 · 1 year
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Love has something to do with the notion of being seen — the opposite of invisibility. The invisible, the unwitnessed, the unacknowledged, the isolated, the lonely — these are the unloved. Loving attention illuminates the unseen, escorting them from the frontiers of lovelessness into the observed world. To truly see someone — anyone — is an act that acknowledges and forgives our common and imperfect humanity. Love enacts a kind of vigilant perception — whether it is to a partner, a child, a co-worker, a neighbour, a fellow citizen, or any other person one may encounter in this life. Love says softly — I see you. I recognise you. You are human, as am I.
Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files Issue #103
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mowing-blade · 6 months
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Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave on the set for 'Where the Wild Roses Grows'. July 24, 1995. Photographed by Dave Tonge.
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Nick Cave by Derek Ridgers, 1984.
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treelimbs · 6 months
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siouxsie sioux and nick cave, photographed by piers allardyce in 1997
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vintage-tigre · 8 months
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Nick Cave, 1988
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mtonino · 4 months
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Nick Cave performed "A Rainy Night in Soho" at Shane MacGowan's funeral
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firstfullmoon · 1 year
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[T]he luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.
Nick Cave, in Faith, Hope and Carnage
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Nick Cave and Rowland S. Howard, 1981-82 (Year uncertain)
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punknightmares · 1 year
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vincent-gallo-burner · 7 months
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loversofthegrave · 3 months
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far from me / nick cave & the bad seeds
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legendarytragedynacho · 8 months
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Lux Interior and Nick Cave backstage Perkins Palace, Pasadena, California ‘84
📷 by Chris Amouroux
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