In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

—Frank O'Hara


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Paul Klee | At the Core
An Angel serves a small breakfast ||

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Since life is a voyage or a battle, every story is either the Iliad or the Odyssey.

—Raymond Queneau


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Cy Twombly | Fifty Days at Iliam
The Fire that Consumes All before It

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“No man is so foolish as to desire war more than peace: for in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”

— Herodotus

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The Battle of Salamis, W. Kaulbach

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“Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.”

― Demosthenes

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Eugène Delacroix, Demosthenes on the Seashore   

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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

~ W. B. Yeats

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🎨 Jack B. Yeats, Driftwood in a Cave. 1948

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"If you never assume importance
You never lose it."

— Lao Tzu

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"There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked."

— Anton Chekhov | Quotomania ~
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