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I never understood why I always end up dazing at these religious icons like I fall in a mystic trance. It’ s a sort of an epiphany during which I’m waiting for some unknown revelation.
I understood that the line between Holiness and Grotesque is really very thin.
”— la Rocaille.
(Source: larocaille.altervista.org)
“Life in the country was killing him with its silence and loneliness, making everything ordinary too beautiful to bear.”
There is no need for remembrance.
Ferdinand Chavel. — the French postman who spent thirty-three years of his life building Le Palais Idéal after having tripped on a small, weird-shaped stone.
Forget your past. -- Timothy Allen
Today, this incredible derelict building stands as an iconic monument to an abandoned ideology.
-and quietly wishing that a few more of them had been left to grow old and perish naturally rather than being unceremoniously hooked up to the proverbial life support machine.
