The Blackening


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Do you know or could you clearly imagine, what a cold person is, a cold spirit, a cold soul, a cold body, everything cold, the whole being at once? It isn’t death, because next to it, inside the person, exists a sense of that cold—its ‘burn'—I cannot say it any other way. Death is preferable if it is simply nonexistence and its cold is only the absence of all warmth. But this cold is the cold of condensed air and this existence is like the existence in Dante’s Inferno…
—Zinaida Gippius, from a letter to Dmitry Filosof c. September 1920 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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oo111111: “Detail from The Virgin Contemplating Instruments of the Passion ”

oo111111:

Detail from The Virgin Contemplating Instruments of the Passion

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coffee-and-cinema: “Nicola Samori, Il vizio della Croce (detail), 2014 Aurora onyx, copper, iron ”

coffee-and-cinema:

Nicola Samori, Il vizio della Croce (detail), 2014

Aurora onyx, copper, iron 

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I am in harmony with my annihilation.
—Georges Bataille (via soracities)

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blackpaint20: “ Odilon Redon (1840-1916) Fighting skeletons Charcoal and stumping on paper 37.3 x 45.5 cm (14 ¾ x 17 7/8 in.) ”

blackpaint20:

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Fighting skeletons
Charcoal and stumping on paper
37.3 x 45.5 cm (14 ¾ x 17 7/8 in.)

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koredzas: “School of Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Eden. 1520 ”

koredzas:

School of Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Eden. 1520

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pauvremagicien: “Damien Hirst ”

pauvremagicien:

Damien Hirst

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theearofvangogh: “ Silence [1799 - 1801] Henry Fuseli [1741 - 1825] ”

theearofvangogh:

Silence [1799 - 1801]

Henry Fuseli [1741 - 1825]

(Source: theearofvangogh)

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