June 2012
One beast and only one howls in the woods by night. The wolf is carnivore...
– Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves (via frenchtwist)
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
– Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores (via frenchtwist)
Infatuation. First Love. Lust.
My passion can be explained away. But this is...
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via frenchtwist)
Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.
– Eckhart Tolle (via emotional-algebra)
I am engulfed,
I succumb … s’abîmer / to be engulfed
Outburst of annihilation...
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse (via frenchtwist)
Whatever is a part of the mystery and magnetic fascination of dreams, the dark...
– Antonin Artaud, Collected Works (via frenchtwist)
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman … And yet we are told that...
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, translation by H.M Parshley (via frenchtwist)
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
– Nora Ephron, Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women (via frenchtwist)
Language makes thought, as much as it is made by thought. Thought inhabits...
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Consciousness and the Acquisition of Language, translation by Hugh J. Silverman (via frenchtwist)