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Do you think she’s talented? Deeply and importantly talented? Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) dir. Blake Edwards

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creepyglasgowgal-deactivated202

Mood 🍹🥃🍻

“Non riesco a dire come ogni volta che metto le mie braccia intorno a te, io mi sento a casa”

Ernest Hemingway a Marlene Dietrich

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Oscar Wilde’s letter to an Oxford student on the uselessness of art:

My Dear Sir

Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way. It is superbly sterile, and the note of its pleasure is sterility. If the contemplation of a work of art is followed by activity of any kind, the work is either of a very second-rate order, or the spectator has failed to realise the complete artistic impression. 

A work of art is useless as a flower is useless. A flower blossoms for its own joy. We gain a moment of joy by looking at it. That is all that is to be said about our relations to flowers. Of course man may sell the flower, and so make it useful to him, but this has nothing to do with the flower. It is not part of its essence. It is accidental. It is a misuse. All this is I fear very obscure. But the subject is a long one.

Truly yours,

Oscar Wilde

“Niente è cambiato, e tuttavia tutto esiste in un'altra maniera. Non posso descriverlo, è come la Nausea e tuttavia è esattamente l'opposto”.

“La nausea”, di Jean-Paul Sartre è il libro che abbiamo scelto per maggio.

21.05.2019