Nov15

man sitting by the stove.

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“i will always be on the side of those who have nothing

and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.”

-federico garcía lorca

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“Man Sitting by the Stove The Pauper” by Vincent van Gogh, created in 1882 in The Hague, Netherlands.  Chalk and pencil on paper. Currently held in a private collection.

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  7. I searched for the Spanish original and got this reply from AI:

    “The original Spanish version of the quote is: ‘Siempre estaré del lado de los que no tienen nada, y a quienes ni siquiera se les deja tener la nada que tienen en paz.’ This quote is attributed to Federico García Lorca and is commonly translated into English as, ‘I will always be on the side of those who have nothing, and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.'”

    So apparently there’s doubt about whether it was really García Lorca who said that.

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  10. One of the highlights of my trip to Europe this past summer was visiting the van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. I fell in love with his work. Great quote and a perfect depiction of someone who had it all, yet had nothing.

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  21. Reminds me of this … The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied…but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
    ― John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays

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