

“I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory of the past events as the snail leaves its slime.
Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
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Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson”
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“El hombre es un museo de enfermedades, una residencia de impurezas; llega hoy y mañana ha desaparecido; empieza como barro y acaba como hedor (...)”
― The Mysterious Stranger
― The Mysterious Stranger

“MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.”
― Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)
― Delphi Collected Works of Francis Bacon (Illustrated)
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