An angry art non-lover punched a Monet in 2012. Conservators are the art world magicians that worked miracles on it… read more:
There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.
Etgar Keret, Missing Kissinger (via bstarna)
“They say she’s gifted, but what do I know. I roam around her soul, and it’s like a deserted apartment. Like a house where the parents have shoved all the furniture into a corner because their son is having a party.”
- Etgar Keret (“Alternative," The Girl on the Fridge)
I brought a handful of books home for winter break. Etgar Keret is not for curling up in bed, though.
The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
Man’s Search for Himself (Rollo May)
Source: wordsthat-speak
Most dogs will pounce at the potential of a food scrap dropping from the dinner table. Sid the beagle is not most dogs.
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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
Haruki Murakami (via thedesertsighs)
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Maxfield Parrish, At Close of Day 1941
