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[...] — I tell myself but Louise you are not going to kill yourself it is not necessary, you are strong enough now to push suicide away – this thought makes me snap out of a nightmare. I am convinced but Louise you don’t owe anything to anyone You no longer have debts, you do not have debts – You can close the door and chase claims from your conscience; You made yourself a victim of your own masochism; You want to expiate crimes that do not exist – You do not have to die for Anyone – This realization is a revelation

— Louise Bourgeois

    Cassavetes on Cassavetes.

Recent picture of Sofia Coppola taken by Romy Mars.

Éric Rohmer and the cast of The Green Ray (1986)

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

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

Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)

Jeanne Hébuterne, 1898-1920

Adam and Eve, 1919, oil on cardboard, 81.5×59.8 cm

Pinacothèque de Paris

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“tonight I wd. love to write an essay about music—it seems to me I know some things tonight—but good God! For hours with pencil in hand + only one stupid sentence. Who tied my tongue + stopped the spirit for words? Maybe I can tell you what vision I have: rhythm is like the air or water or the ether that the planets move in,—it is in fact like space, and the whole problem in writing notes or making movements, etc., is to not destroy it. It has not the slightest thing to do with anything that is put into it: an accent or a metre or what else; it only begs to be free to be. Does that mean anything?”

— John Cage, in a Letter to Merce Cunningham [postmarked August 17, 1944, New York], in John Cage’s Selected Letters