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Love Meetings (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.””

— Adrienne Rich, “Claiming an Education” (1977), On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (via sadladypoetssociety)

“Don’t, for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

Martin Margiela ‘89

Jane Birkin

Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.44 (1921)

Friedrich Nietzsche, for the new year

"I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone" by Richard Brautigan (via khanombang )