April 2012
March 2012
“When woman, fully the equal of man, can love in her strength and not in her...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (via frenchtwist)
“Exultation rides by
A poppy the size of the sun in my skull
I have given fair...”
– Philip Lamantia, I Have Given Fair Warning (via frenchtwist)
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their...”
– Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (via frenchtwist)
“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
– André Gide, Le Prométhée mal enchaîné (via frenchtwist)
“There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And...”
– Bram Stoker, Dracula (via frenchtwist)
“While I was sitting one night with a poet friend watching a great opera...”
– Loren Eiseley. with gratitude to Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I no longer know who I am. I cannot recognize myself in the mirror.”
– Maurice Leblanc, The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin (via frenchtwist)
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection … that one is...”
– George Orwell, Reflections on Gandhi (via frenchtwist)
“We drew our heavy revolvers - all at once there were revolvers in the dream -...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Ragnarök (via frenchtwist)
“Behind every real object there is a dream object.”
– Jean Baudrillard, The System of Objects (via frenchtwist)
