On [:] Bonbons | Franz Hessel, 1920
Illustration: A L Grace from the weekly magazine The Bystander, December 1924 "We want to eat bonbons and be banal."...
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On [:] Memories | Cesare Pavese, 1935-50
Jaques Henri Lartigue, 1928 “We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we...
On [:] Bread | Latin graffiti in Pompeii
Painted shrine from kitchen of a villa in Pompeii "On April 19th I made bread." Latin graffiti in Pompeii (CIL...
On [:] The Use of a Book | Lewis Carroll, 1865
Gerardo Sacristán Torralba, Scrambled books, Study of light, 1939 "What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures...
On [:] Coincidence | Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
Gerhard Richter, Cloud, 1969 “The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes...
On [:] Intuition | Clarice Lispector, 1973
Joseph Wright, Maria, from Sterne, 1777 "I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself." Clarice Lispector, The Stream of...
On [:] Trample | James Joyce
Grete Marks (1899-1990), The Cacti "People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus. " James Joyce
On [:] Attach | Mary Shelley, 1818
Cy Twombly, Miramare - Sunset by the Sea, Gaeta, 2001 “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from...
On [:] Adaptation | Eugene Delacroix, 1798 – 1863
Eugene Delacroix, The Porte d'Amont, Etretat, 1849 "Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand:...
On [:] Astray | Georges Bataille, 1944
Valentin Serov, Portrait of Olga Alexandrovna, 1893 "The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...