August 2012
“The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men. One-sixth gravity must be a...”
– E. B. White, July 26, 1969
Also see Carl Sagan echo the same sentiment in 1971.
(via explore-blog)
“It’s noticing that cracks us open, lets something in.
Shows we’re in use.
Uses...”
– Lia Purpura, On Looking: Essays. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Anything not strange is invisible.”
– Paul Valéry, Cahiers (via frenchtwist)
“And if there is one truly infernal and damned thing left today, it is our...”
– Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double, translation by Victor Corti (via frenchtwist)
“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown …...”
– E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born, translation by Richard Howard (via frenchtwist)
“The study of dreams is particularly difficult, for we cannot examine dreams...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Nightmares from Seven Nights, translation by Eliot Weinberger (via frenchtwist)
“I saw myself seeing myself, sinuous, and
From gaze to gaze gilded my innermost...”
– Paul Valéry, from La Jeune Parque (via frenchtwist)
“I felt as if there were invisible threads between us. I felt as if invisible...”
– From the film Edvard Munch, 1974 (via frenchtwist)
“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need to do is stroll...”
– Charles Baudelaire, from The Dedalus Book of French Horror: The 19th Century (via frenchtwist)
“And when one day Rambert told him that he liked waking up at four in the morning...”
– Albert Camus, The Plague (via theshipthatflew)
“I drink in your slit and I spread your naked legs; I open them like a book where...”
– Georges Bataille, from Je mets mon vit contre ta joue, translation by Nick Land (via frenchtwist)
