“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved objects or its love.” - Sigmund Freud “The Civilization and its Discontents”

“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”  - Sylvia Plath

Dean Martin and Audrey Hepburn

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it…” - George Bernard Shaw

“That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.” - Jim Morrison

This has been circulated around the internet several months ago, but I thought of it today and wanted to share it. {StoryCorps on Vimeo}

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

Sean Lennon and Kemp Muhl recreate  

John and Yoko's famous Rolling Stone cover. 

On December 8, 1980, Leibovitz had a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, promising him that he would make the cover. She had initially tried to get a picture with just Lennon alone, which is what Rolling Stone wanted, but Lennon insisted that both he and Yoko Ono be on the cover. Leibovitz then tried to re-create something like the kissing scene from the Double Fantasy album cover, a picture that she loved. She had John remove his clothes and curl up next to Yoko. Leibovitz recalls, "What is interesting is she said she'd take her top off and I said, 'Leave everything on' — not really preconceiving the picture at all. Then he curled up next to her and it was very, very strong. You couldn't help but feel that she was cold and he looked like he was clinging on to her. I think it was amazing to look at the first Polaroid and they were both very excited. John said, 'You've captured our relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover.' I looked him in the eye and we shook on it." Leibovitz was the last person to professionally photograph Lennon—he was shot and killed five hours later. - Wikipedia

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