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HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

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“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one’s own being. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self. The sun would rise from the eastern horizon, and cut it’s way across the empty sky, and sink below the western horizon. This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Peyrelebade Landscape, 1869
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ANIMALS OF THE SEA

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Animals of the Sea
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

Lord Byron

Animals of the Sea
Odilon Redon – 1910

ODILON REDON ~ THE MISTY OUTLINE OF A HUMAN FORM

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“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
Unknown

Painting
Odilon Redon – 1840-1916
I saw above the misty outline of a human form – 1896

LA FOLIE OR BEING CRAZY

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“La Folie”

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“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Albert Einstein

ODILON REDON ~ IN MY DREAMS

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In my Dreams… (Hommage a Goya)

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ODILON REDON ~ DEATH’S HEAD

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Illustrations for Le Jure by Edmond Picard
Series of 7 litographs, 1887

No. 1
The wall of his room was opening up, and from the crack a death’s head was projected.

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ODILON REDON ~ DEATH'S HEAD

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Illustrations for Le Jure by Edmond Picard
Series of 7 litographs, 1887

No. 1
The wall of his room was opening up, and from the crack a death’s head was projected.

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ODILON REDON ~ GUARDIAN SPIRIT OF THE WATER

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Guardian Spirit of the Water

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ODILON REDON ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

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The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

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Apparition

ELIAS CANETTI ~ ON DREAMS

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LA CHIMARE ~ ODILON REDON

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti ( Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905–14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi-Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

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