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daoism?

"The universe is my home, and my house is my underwear; so what are you doing in my underwear?"
 - from an old daoist Chinese story

fidelity sleeping

E. Manet "Olympia" 1863

If the dog is a symbol of fidelity, but a sleeping dog, like the one in Titian's "Venus of Urbino" is fidelity sleeping, might that be the reason Olympia's cat is so starkly awake?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

argument

In an argument the person who wins is the one who knows how to make himself look like a king and humble his opponent down to nothing.  It has nothing to do with truth and integrity.

becoming

You know when you were ten years old, and you saw some fashionable, self-assured, grown-up girl, and you thought, "Wow, I want to be just like her."  And then 10 years later, you look at yourself in the mirror, you remember that girl, and you think, I have become just like her.  And then you remember all those other inspirations, and you realize that you've become just like all of them, but in your own way, you've become the girl, you've become a Girl.

Manet's Bouquets

Who knew E. Manet had such beautiful flower and bouquet canvases!

E. Manet "Flowers in a Crystal Vase" 1882

E. Manet "Des Roses dans un Verre à Champagne"
(Roses in a Champagne Glass) 1882

E. Manet "Two Roses on a Tablecloth" 1883

Vogue

"L'aspetto più importante di qualsiasi progetto de design resiede nella sua reale capacità di migliorare la nostra vita.  Perché soltanto la pura belleza è capace di tanto."

you just gotta do one thing well babe

And when you walk around the world, babeYou said you'd try to look for the end of the roadYou might find out later that the road'll end in DetroitHoney, the road'll even end in Kathmandu
You can go all around the worldTrying to find something to do with your life, babyWe only gotta do one thing wellYou only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, babe
You got a woman waiting for you thereAll you ever gotta do is be a good man one time to one womanAnd that'll be the end of the road, babeI know you got more tears to share, babe.
"Cry Baby" - Janis Joplin

janis joplin

take another little piece of my heart yeah baby