Monia Brizzi
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1647-52, L'estasi di Santa Teresa, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Roma
'I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.'
St. Teresa of Avila 1562–65, Autobiography
'Make the human being's sensitiveness a little greater, carry him a little farther over the misery-threshold, and the good quality of the successful moments themselves when they occur is spoiled and vitiated. (…) In short, life and its negation are beaten up inextricably together. But if the life be good, the negation of it must be bad. Yet the two are equally essential facts of existence; and all natural happiness thus seem infected with a contradiction. The breath of the ... bio
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films and directors
8 e mezzo;Code unknown:incomplete tales of several journeys;Abigail's party;Persepolis;Centochiodi;Una gita scolastica;Angel-A;My Winnipeg;Waking life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=82EV4KBIsNk
(our decision..how we respond to the givens and limitations embedded in contextual/ situated/embodied life?)
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