He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him

Nada oprime o coração como a simetria. A simetria é tédio, e o tédio é o berço da dor. O desespero boceja.

- Victor Hugo, 1862, Os Miseráveis

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The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

— Dorothy Parker

Projecto Díptico Vertical #298

 

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I got that summertime sadness.

– Lana Del Rey

There is much pain that is quite noiseless...

 

Nicolas Guérin, Elogio da Sombra, Paris, 2012

Making love is the sovereign remedy for anguish.

- Frédérick Leboyer* (1918-2017), 1991, Birth Without Violence

(*French gynaecologist and obstetrician, who first drew attention to birth trauma, and has always emphasized the intimate associations between sex, depression and anxiety.)

Find someone who knows how to calm your storm

Paolo Poversi, Polaroids

You can’t quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.

― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone

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Faz-lhe um upgrade, não a substituas.

L'enfer, c'est les autres

Losing your religion, Davide Padovan

Elle ne croyait á rien; seul, son scepticism l’empêchait d’être athèe.

- Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Mots, 1964, Lire

O cepticismo é a castidade do intelecto e é aviltante, ou capitular demasiado cedo, ou a quem dele se abeirar primeiro

Life of things fades into nothingness de Nicolás Lamas,
foto Luca Bellicini, Spazio ORR, Brescia, Itália

Cepticismo: a recusa da ansiedade

Disse a voz da canícula

 

I know what you did last summer by @tadaocern