Ethereal
A few of the 33 ethereal illustrations by the Italian watercolourist Raffaele Mainella for Clotilde Briatte’s Nos Invisibles (1907), a book that charts the voices of Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, and other illustrious writers and thinkers from beyond the grave.
Writing under the nom de plume Charles d’Orino, Briatte... See more
instagram.com“Trying to make sense of your life is trying to see if the old story checks out, if the person you once were would be happy with the life they lead today. You’re looking for answers in people that don’t exist.”
We think of our lives as numerous beginnings we seem to think we start and end as if by learning the piano, we have not already heard it, seen it, known it. We have not played the same notes, sung the same melodies. There is just one beginning and one end.
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