Yppah Sreggad

PHOTO 83

2009-07-27T00:14:00.005+01:00

"It was reading Hume, that awakened me from my dogmatic slumber..."
Immanuel Kant

PHOTO 82

2009-06-27T14:13:00.002+01:00

"I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure."
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 81

2009-06-18T12:42:00.002+01:00

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few."
Emily Dickinson

PHOTO 80

2009-06-17T01:12:00.002+01:00

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!"
Emily Dickinson

PHOTO 79

2009-06-16T09:07:00.003+01:00

"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
Sun Ra

PHOTO 78

2009-06-15T00:09:00.003+01:00

"An anti-Communist is a dog. I couldn't see any way out of that one and I never will."
Jean-Paul Sartre

PHOTO 77

2009-06-12T21:55:00.002+01:00

"By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide."
Jean Genet

PHOTO 76

2009-06-07T11:52:00.004+01:00

"The poet cannot stay too long in the stratosphere of the Verb."
René Char

PHOTO 75

2009-06-04T23:55:00.003+01:00

"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition."
Barack Obama

PHOTO 74

2009-06-03T09:47:00.000+01:00

"I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away."
J. D. Salinger

PHOTO 73

2009-06-02T06:31:00.002+01:00

"Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
Susan Sontag

PHOTO 72

2009-05-31T19:58:00.003+01:00

"But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present and fear the future. When they come to an end of it, the poor wretches realize too late that for all this time they have been preoccupied in doing nothing."
Seneca

PHOTO 71

2009-05-26T12:56:00.003+01:00

''Indeed, now that I have fixed my eyes upon it, I feel that I have grasped a plank in the sea; I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades. Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of...''
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 70

2009-05-25T12:56:00.002+01:00

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 69

2009-05-20T22:34:00.002+01:00

''When we speak the word 'life', it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.''
Antonin Artaud

PHOTO 68

2009-05-18T23:48:00.002+01:00

"Accumulate, then distribute. Of the mirror of the universe be the part that is densest, most useful and least apparent."
René Char

PHOTO 67

2009-05-16T20:03:00.002+01:00

"He who is the disciple of Khidr [an invisible master] possesses sufficient inner strength to seek freely the teaching of all masters. Of this the biography of Ibn 'Arabi, who frequented all the masters of his day and welcomed their teachings, offers living proof."
Ibn al-'Arabi
translation and adaptation: Henry Corbin

PHOTO 66

2009-05-15T21:20:00.003+01:00

"There is a truth of exile and there is a vocation of exile."
Maurice Blanchot

PHOTO 65

2009-05-14T20:43:00.004+01:00

''Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.''
Emily Dickinson

PHOTO 64

2009-05-13T23:00:00.002+01:00

''The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.''
Simone Weil

PHOTO 63

2009-05-11T21:02:00.002+01:00

''To paint a bird's portrait
First of all, paint a cage
with an opened little door...''
Jacques Prévert

PHOTO 62

2009-05-11T00:04:00.002+01:00

''The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.''
Marcel Proust

PHOTO 61

2009-05-09T22:05:00.002+01:00

''All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.''
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PHOTO 60

2009-05-08T00:29:00.002+01:00

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 59

2009-05-07T22:06:00.002+01:00

''The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.''
George Berkeley

PHOTO 58

2009-05-06T22:19:00.003+01:00

''Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.''
Emily Dickinson

PHOTO 57

2009-05-05T12:52:00.003+01:00

"... A flow of words seeking their most crystal-clear order, snatches of sentences being endlessly reworked, ideas dawning then threatening to evaporate if a word or a symbol didn't swiftly fix them in memory."
André Gorz

PHOTO 56

2009-05-03T20:07:00.003+01:00

"I long for my mother's bread
My mother's coffee
Her touch
Childhood memories grow up in me
Day after day
I must be worth my life
At the hour of my death
Worth the tears of my mother."
Mahmoud Darwish

PHOTO 55

2009-05-02T21:58:00.003+01:00

"An ego thus educated has become reasonable; it no longer lets itself be governed by the pleasure principle, but obeys the reality principle, which also at bottom seeks to obtain pleasure, but pleasure which is assured through taking account of reality, even though it is pleasure postponed and diminished."
Sigmund Freud

PHOTO 54

2009-05-01T07:11:00.002+01:00

''Life itself is a quotation.''
Jorge Luis Borges

PHOTO 53

2009-04-30T21:57:00.002+01:00

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
Emily Dickinson

PHOTO 52

2009-04-29T08:48:00.004+01:00

“It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

PHOTO 51

2009-04-28T09:08:00.007+01:00

''The visage of being that shows itself in war is fixed in the concept of totality, which dominates Western philosophy. Individuals are reduced to being bearers of forces that command them unbeknown to themselves. The meaning of individuals (invisible outside of this totality) is derived from the totality. The unicity of each present is incessantly sacrificed to a future appealed to bring forth its objective being.''
Emmanuel Levinas

Please note that 51 is the picture of a picture, focused on a detail - by reframing.
Source: AP/Anja Niedringhaus Original picture 28/32

PHOTO 50

2009-04-27T08:05:00.002+01:00

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me."
Martin Buber

PHOTO 49

2009-04-26T10:49:00.002+01:00

''I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.''
Arthur Rimbaud

PHOTO 48

2009-04-25T15:24:00.004+01:00

''You were born with wings.Why prefer to crawl through life?''
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

PHOTO 47

2009-04-24T20:02:00.001+01:00

''He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.''
Michel de Montaigne

PHOTO 46

2009-04-22T08:25:00.003+01:00

"This mere woolgathering; this sitting in a chair day in, day out, with a cigarette and a sheet of paper and a pen and an ink pot.''
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 45

2009-04-19T10:30:00.000+01:00

''If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.''
Emily Dickinson

PHOTO 44

2009-04-17T22:14:00.002+01:00

“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”
Nazim Hikmet

PHOTO 44

2009-04-16T01:16:00.000+01:00

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza

PHOTO 43

2009-04-14T22:34:00.001+01:00

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 42

2009-04-13T22:49:00.000+01:00

"And my identity card is number fifty thousand..."
Mahmoud Darwish

PHOTO 41

2009-04-12T10:43:00.000+01:00

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
Pablo Neruda

PHOTO 40

2009-04-11T17:23:00.000+01:00

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Warren Buffett

PHOTO 39

2009-04-10T21:28:00.000+01:00

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 38

2009-04-09T22:49:00.000+01:00

“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
Charlie Parker

PHOTO 37

2009-04-09T00:42:00.000+01:00

“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”
Jacques Prévert

PHOTO 36

2009-04-07T23:58:00.000+01:00

"Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise."

PHOTO 35

2009-04-07T02:30:00.001+01:00

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Henry Ford

PHOTO 34

2009-04-06T09:45:00.000+01:00

“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is (...) at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away.”
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 33

2009-04-05T16:25:00.000+01:00

"What if the book were only infinite memory of A word lacking?"
Edmond Jabes

PHOTO 32

2009-04-04T08:53:00.000+01:00

“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.”
Jean Genet

PHOTO 31

2009-04-02T22:03:00.000+01:00

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."
Emma Goldman

PHOTO 30

2009-04-01T10:20:00.000+01:00

"... the 'middle class' is, in its very 'real' existence, the embodied lie, the denial of antagonism - in psychoanalytic terms, the 'middle class' is a fetish, the impossible intersection of left and right which, by expelling both poles of the antagonism into the position of antisocial 'extremes' which corrode the healthy social body (multinational corporations and intruding immigrants), presents itself as the neutral common ground of Society."
Slavoj Zizek

PHOTO 29

2009-03-31T07:16:00.000+01:00

"What we have here is the tragicomic reversal of the Benthamite-Orwellian notion of the panopticon society in which we are (potentially) 'observed all the time', and have nowhere to hide from the omnipresent gaze of power."
Slavoj Zizek

PHOTO 28

2009-03-30T06:57:00.000+01:00

"...why it has persisted for half a century when everybody knows the only workable solution: the withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank and – conclusively – Gaza, the establishment of a viable Palestinian state and, as part of that process, a compromise over the status of Jerusalem..."
Slavoj Zizek

PHOTO 27

2009-03-29T07:43:00.000+01:00

"The only measure of the greatness of the event is how it succeeds in structuring everyday life."
Slavoj Zizek

PHOTO 26

2009-03-28T22:52:00.001Z

"On today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol…"
Slavoj Zizek

PHOTO 25

2009-03-28T07:13:00.001Z

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”
Henry Miller

PHOTO 24

2009-03-27T01:16:00.000Z

"Night Flying Winter Cranes"
Mogens Christensen - Kiku Day

PHOTO 23

2009-03-25T15:57:00.000Z

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."
John Ruskin

PHOTO 22

2009-03-23T22:05:00.000Z

''... The malady that plagues mankind more than any other: shamelessness."
Euripides

PHOTO 21

2009-03-18T21:33:00.000Z

"I hate victims who respect their executioners."
Jean-Paul Sartre

PHOTO 20

2009-03-17T21:39:00.000Z

“The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”
André Breton

PHOTO 19

2009-03-17T02:15:00.001Z

"Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds."
Aristotle

PHOTO 18

2009-03-14T23:46:00.000Z

“We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.”
Simone Weil

PHOTO 17

2009-03-13T14:43:00.000Z

"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 16

2009-03-12T16:16:00.001Z

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
Friedrich Nietzsche

PHOTO 15

2009-03-11T10:46:00.001Z

“The moon, like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.”
William Blake

PHOTO 14

2009-03-10T15:26:00.000Z

"When philosophy paints its grey in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

PHOTO 13

2009-03-09T21:00:00.001Z

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."
W. Somerset Maugham

PHOTO 12

2009-03-08T09:55:00.000Z

"In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it."
Gilbert K. Chesterton

PHOTO 11

2009-03-07T19:12:00.000Z

"What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle."
Ludwig Wittgenstein

PHOTO 10

2009-03-06T16:34:00.000Z

"But the longer-term inflation risk such a move causes, if it succeeds in reviving the economy, is substantial. And for foreign investors, it raises the fear of more pressure on the pound undermining capital gains on gilts as yields fall. Meanwhile, the effect on investor and borrower behavior is uncertain."
Wall Street Journal, Friday - Sunday, March 6 - 8, 2009

PHOTO 9

2009-03-06T09:51:00.000Z

"Commute, work, commute, sleep . . ."
Anonymous, Mai 68, Paris - on a wall

PHOTO 8

2009-03-04T15:01:00.000Z

"So we are proposing to decentre the question of the subject onto the question of subjectivity. Traditionally, the subject was conceived as the ultimate essence of individuation, as a pure, empty, prereflexive apprehension of the world, a nucleus of sensibility, of expressivity - the unifier of states of consciousness. With subjectivity we place the emphasis instead on the founding instance of intentionality. This involves taking the relation between subject and object by the middle and foregrounding the expressive instance..."
Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari

PHOTO 7

2009-02-22T12:05:00.000Z

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

PHOTO 6

2009-02-02T10:42:00.000Z

"I walked abroad in a snowy day
I askd the soft snow with me to play"...
William Blake

PHOTO 5

2009-01-30T00:56:00.001Z

''In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.''
Karl Marx

PHOTO 4

2009-01-29T17:46:00.001Z

''My desk at the office was certainly never tidy, but now it is littered with a chaotic pile of papers and files; I may just know the things that lie on top, but lower down I suspect nothing but horrors.''
Franz Kafka

PHOTO 3

2009-01-23T20:50:00.002Z

"She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day."
Virginia Woolf

PHOTO 2

2009-01-22T14:39:00.001Z

“Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.”
Jean-Luc Godard

PHOTO 1

2009-01-21T23:20:00.000Z

"I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!"
Charles Baudelaire