tense gayety.

“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

Aries : “Now I will relinquish; now I will let loose. Now I will at last free the checked, the jerked-back desire to be spent, to be consumed.”

Taurus : “How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave;”

Gemini : “[Her] eyes break into a thousand lights.”

Cancer : “She often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

Leo : “Consume me, carry me to the furthest limit.”

Virgo : “…I live; I die; the sea comes over me; it’s the blue that lasts.”

Libra : “Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease. High battlements of thought, habits that had seemed durable as stone, went down like shadows at the touch of another mind and left a naked sky and fresh stars twinkling in it.”

Scorpio : “It is the soul that matters, its passion, its tumult, its astonishing melody of beauty and vileness.”

Sagittarius : “[…] a self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

Capricorn : “Yet sometimes one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful.”

Aquarius : “What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

CÉLINE SCIAMMA AND BONG JOON HO 

© photographed by Chad Hartigan at the Oscars After Party

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