"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."
Albert Einstein
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"The less I needed, the better I felt."
Charles Bukowski (via theartofskulduggery)
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: The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998) , Charles Bukowski
“There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They…
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"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you."
On the Road, Jack Kerouac (via tanyabyrne)
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gaws:
Patricia Franchini: What is your greatest ambition in life?
Parvulesco: To become immortal… and then die.
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"Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it."
Audre Lorde (via enfantdelanuit)
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"If you had an opportunity for a stunningly beautiful experience, but knew it couldn’t last - would you walk away, or see it through? And realize that question could be asked about life itself. Life doesn’t last forever, so what do you want it to look like? Start making it look that way today."
Dr. Ramani (via cannonnyc)
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"I grew up in a Silence of the Lambs culture, a culture where rape and killing women are very common themes for movies and TV shows. Society isn’t afraid of sex and violence; they are afraid of women owning their own bodies and controlling their own sexuality—which is what happens in BDSM."
Princess Donna, pornographic actress, director and BDSM educator (via heymaitreyi)
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"For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?"
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
