Impermanance

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The infinite can be infinitely understood, infinitely and infinitely misunderstood, infinitely.
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Nature knows no king but gossip.
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Death is certain, the time of death is uncertain. Do something.
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For today's condition, what kind of action is equivalent to “walking on water”, and with that action, we are able to undermine the superiority of the subjects of the powers?
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To be rich in a socialist society.
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Stop calculating - Start thinking of a year of wonderful thoughts as if you are a beginner.
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I am not for you, as the world never was.
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A corporeal form to work with, or against. Either, bringing us awareness.
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The mites disrupt the moist earth, which silently with out hesitation or effort breaths out into the night, invisible spours. As they start floating up from the ground, in clouds of invisible hope, so rise the stars and their girl passengers.
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"Balming broken spine and crushed spirit, beyond count, I fall and rise, emerge like a bondwoman."
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His hair was made of spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti.
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We believe in absurd beauty, superficial necessity, flowers offerings on a rainy winter day.
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even if the bubbles break, we have enough bones to make new soap.
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Lethargy attacks from the inside long before the deliberate unloading of chaos.
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The banal is extraordinary just as often as the extraordinary is banal.
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Do what you can, when you can.
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You are to imagine an anchor.
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Music should be for anyone to play.
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Art eternal and ineffable.
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De weg naar huis is altijd achter de gouden regenboog. Kijk!
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and as youth, we drank that pain and made it normal.
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Not beauty but belonging.
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Make trees your lovers.
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Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
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"England is the first lie. England is a lie invading kings told you to take your actual land from you ..."
— Robert Montgomery
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Our dancing is poetry and our souls are cinema, from which we walk through the days accompanied by short poems of long observations.
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We shall reject binaries and explore the liminal, archetypes will be fragmented or reappropriated until they have lost their ferocity.
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There are no endings, only beginning after beginning after beginning. An Ouroboros eating it's own tail.
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At once never truly original, authentic or real, never encapsulated in a single image.
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When running against a wall it is time to play a different game.
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"Do the work that needs to be done rather than what we want to do based on our projections, idealizations and presumed entitlements and exceptionalisms."
— Vanessa Andreotti
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many have suffered for our right to vote, so it's our duty to use that right to create positive change, let's vote to make our world a safer, more equal, place for all.
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Hiking on the moors in cuban heels is foolish and very impractical, but looks great.
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"Art leads to a discovery of your soul."
Artists are gatekeepers to the expression of the soul, looking in to discover the external. Your true rhythm lies within.
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From rejection to fetishisation; the middle ground can be incarnation.
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The world needs an ethics of gesture. Not a gesturing towards ethics, but ethical choreographies for everyday life.
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Be realistic, demand the impossible.
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We should be listening, but we are only looking.
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In chess, it's called Zugzwang, when the only viable move is not to move.
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"everything flows"
- Heraclitus, C5th BC
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Remember the ones we lost, and the ones that are yet to come. Continue the fight for spaces and places of safety, joy and inclusivity.
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Now theres nothing to do except everything you ever dreamed of doing.
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City lights, Blue and yellow, blurred away by attraction of pink geranium petals.
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We are in a world of duality but we live in the spectrum of it ,not the extremes. You exist only because your opposite exists. Beyond a gaze, you can see one’s naked truth.
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Our shadows are the memories of the lost souls within us. We hid in plain sight with the dead who keep our history alive.
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Trust yourself completely and fully.
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We cannot live eye to eye.
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Go forth, my song's antithesis, make a loud claim, acclaim your claim beyond the Word's periphrasis.
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Show up.
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We must destroy choreography in order to create dance.
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Ignore taste and embrace corruption.
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"We are not in the world, we become with the world"
- G. Deleuze, F. Guattari
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Redefining, reinventing, reinterpreting for surviving.
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'Find the answer within' is not an excuse for narcissism.
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I raise a glass to the ambiguous and to the uncertain, to complexity and to nuance.
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And the walls came tumbling down.
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Remember that time I was a robot and then ate an apple?
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Think of it as three strands of care – caring for, caring about, caring with – plaited with three strands of listening: listening to, listening for, listening with.
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A reworking of the flow poem to look at outsider stories.
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Courage in an alien world.
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CONSUME CONSCIOUSLY. QUESTION EVERYTHING. A SPADE IS NEVER A SPADE.
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Re-Imagine Re-Use Re-Create
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She was disturbing, unexpected and disobedient. She had faith.
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Like life, art is found not made.
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"Gilbert: All art is immoral.
Ernest: All art?
Gilbert: Yes."
- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
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Dirty hands doesn’t mean clean money anymore.
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Defective economic structures create effective aesthetic ones.
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Leave your home, find your power.
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For those who got lost. A stop missed, is a different way to go. Not a wrong way to go.
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Pretence is not an art form.
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