Category Archives: fourteen forms of melancholy
Political scientist Charles T. Rubin argues that “any sufficiently advanced benevolence may be indistinguishable from malevolence.”
“We leave nothing. We leave, really, nothing….And I think that the biggest possibility on this world that we have is to create the nothing. But to create something — the nothing.”
-Reinhold Messner
‘“More happily endowed and more integral personalities have been able to express themselves harmoniously from the very first. But such rich, complex, and conflicting natures as Cézanne’s require a long period of fermentation.” Cézanne was trying something so elusive that he couldn’t master it until he’d spent decades practicing.’