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"because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. he does not think his natural..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:20:13 -0400

“because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. he does not think his natural thoughts or burn with his natural passions. his virtues are not real to him. his sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. he becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. the aim of life is self-development. to realize one’s nature perfectly— that is what each of us is here for. people are afraid of themselves, nowadays. they have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes one’s self.”

- OW

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Thu, 23 May 2013 14:19:40 -0400

thinnerlighterfreer: Adrian Ghenie - “Pie Fight Study 2”, 2008,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:55:18 -0400

thinnerlighterfreer:

Adrian Ghenie - “Pie Fight Study 2”, 2008, oil on canvas, 55 X 59 cm

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Thu, 23 May 2013 13:54:03 -0400

ipocrisia: Massimo Bartolini

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:53:23 -0400

ipocrisia:

Massimo Bartolini

"we are punished for our refusals. every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:52:28 -0400

“we are punished for our refusals. every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. the body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF A TEMPTATION IS TO YIELD TO IT. resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. it has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. it is in the brain, and the brains only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”

- oscar wilde

grett: untitled by lindseey on Flickr.

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:51:48 -0400

grett:

untitled by lindseey on Flickr.

i love you all

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:50:23 -0400

i love you all

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Thu, 23 May 2013 13:49:14 -0400

"It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:48:00 -0400

“It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”

- Tom Gates (via funpoolparty)

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"‎Later that night I held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:46:33 -0400

“

‎Later that night
I held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?

It answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.

”

- Warsan Shire (via loveyourchaos)

kylejthompson: Untitled by Kyle Thompson

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:46:16 -0400

kylejthompson:

Untitled by Kyle Thompson

"I wish I wrote the way I thought; Obsessively, Incessantly, With maddening hunger. I’d write to the..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:46:00 -0400

“I wish I wrote the way I thought;
Obsessively,
Incessantly,
With maddening hunger.
I’d write to the point of suffocation.
I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns,
Manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing.
And I’d write about you
a lot more
than I should.”

- Benedict Smith, I Wish I Wrote The Way I Thought (via erraticintrovert)

anarchicpandas: I’ve been looking at the work of Don McCullin....

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:30 -0400

anarchicpandas:

I’ve been looking at the work of Don McCullin. Very awesome and influential stuff.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 13:44:52 -0400

"“not with women,” said the Duchess, shaking her head; “and women rule the world. i assure you we..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:44:17 -0400

“

“not with women,” said the Duchess, shaking her head; “and women rule the world. i assure you we can’t bear mediocrities. we women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”

“it seems to me that we never do anything else,” murmured Dorian.

“ah! then, you never really love, Mr. Gray,” answered the Duchess, with mock sadness.

“my dear Gladys!” cried Lord Henry. “how can you say that? romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. it merely intensities it. we can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“even when one has been wounded by it, Henry?” asked the Duchess after a pause.

“especially when one has been wounded by it.”

”

- OW

kitty-en-classe: Ph. Darren Ankenman

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:24 -0400

kitty-en-classe:

Ph. Darren Ankenman

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Thu, 23 May 2013 13:38:59 -0400

"I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:06:58 -0400

“I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”

- Samuel Beckett; Waiting for Godot. (via stylistnotions)

"Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say."

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:48:21 -0400

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.”

- Mitch Albom (via ampliflyahhhh)