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user-inactivated  ·  1877 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Planning for Paris

    A human being's grandest task is to keep from breaking with things outside himself.

this reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_breaking

maybe later i will dig up some relevant quotes i have jotted somewhere





user-inactivated  ·  1877 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you make a good point about the larger-than-life paintings. at the modern art museum in manhattan, for example, although arrested by starry night for long minutes, what i really remember is the realization that some of the pictures of lilies were huge. something you could really fall into, like eustace scrubb