February 2012
14 posts
“…And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and...”
– Albert Camus, The Plague, p. 243
“And here I stumble, because of inexperience, dazed by the intensity and savagery...”
– A.N. (Henry and June)
“I don’t hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another...”
– A.N. (Henry and June)
(emryspendragonlord)
January 2012
76 posts
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your...
“In this world, love has no color — yet look how deeply my body is stained by...”
– Izumi Shikibu
“We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate...”
– Aristotle (via nirvikalpa)
Throwing Away the Alarm Clock
henrycharlesbukowski:
my father always said, “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. my father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. taking note, I rejected his advice and it became,...
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via ardnael)
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...”
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature (via cultureofresistance)
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.”
– Anna Akhmatova (via beautyandthemuse)
“The grave recieves you with love. Surrender yourself to the Earth. Return what...”
– excerpt from the 1973 movie The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky (via moldedminded)
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via cultureofresistance)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin
(via pepperwort)
A word on misandry
“When women say they hate men, it is not a simple statement. Women hate men because they are abused by men, because they are raped by men, because they are marginalized by men, because they are murdered by men, because they must live their lives constantly being judged by men. Moreover, it is male-dominated society that teaches us that all of this can be avoided by becoming submissive to...