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Standing Male Nude With A Red Loincloth. Egon Schiele. 1914
“Heroes” Photoshoot. David Bowie. 1977

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

Lidia Quaranta in "Cabiria", diretto da Giovanni Pastore nel 1914.
L' autore della foto è ignoto.
"[...], it occurred to me that my life, whose days more and more repeat themselves down to the smallest detail, resembles that punishment in which each pupil must according to his offence write down the same meaningless (in repetition, at least) sentence ten times, a hundred times or even oftener; except that in my case the punishment is given me with only this limitation: 'as many times as you can stand it'."
Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated January 24th 1914, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Martin Greenberg with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt)
" ̶ but I cling to abstractions, I live completely entangled in life, I won't do it, I am cold, am sad that a shirt collar is pinching my neck, am damned, gasp for breath in the mist."
Franz Kafka, from a diary entry dated February 14th 1914, featured in 'Diaries'. (translated by Martin Greenberg with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt)

Woman with Animals (La dame aux bêtes) (1914) by Albert Gleizes. Peggy Guggenheim Collection.