"ser profundamente amado por alguém nos dá força..."

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A quote on empathy by poet <n>Rainer Maria Rilke</n>.

“The beginning of love is to let those we love to be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to our image. Otherwise, we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”



· Thomas Merton: No Man is an Island

The cover of the book <n>Taboo Unchained</n> by author <n>C.M. Stunich</n>.

Poster for the <n>Je t'aime</n> music event in Padova, Italy, designed by <n>Leonardo Sonnoli</n>.

'my island' for <n>PANSY Magazine!</n> featuring model <n>Frieder</n>.

A still from the 2013 film <n>Nymphomaniac: Volume I</n>, directed by <n>Lars von Trier</n>.

Photo by <n>OUMAYMA</n> for <n>Ignant</n>.

<n>Les mains (Hands)</n> (1947), a <n>Surrealist</n> photograph by <n>Hans Bellmer</n>.

A photo of <n>Nate Lawrence</n> and <n>Madeline Joy Relph</n>.

The <n>Hasanlu Lovers</n>, human remains from c. 800 BC, discovered at Teppe Hasanlu, Iran.

From the series <n>Figures in Water</n> (2015) by photographer <n>Michael Seif</n>.

<n>Eternal Love</n>, a 2007 photograph of a diorama by German artist <n>Frank Kunert</n>.

<n>Ron Hicks</n>'s oil on panel painting, <n>The Embrace II</n>, from 2018.