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The most common form of despair is not being who you are. And yet the self is not a fixed thing to be discovered, but a possibility to be created — which is perhaps why so many prefer the despair.
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849)

2w ago

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?

3mo ago

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