Not yet corpses.
Still, we rot.
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Phantom Thread ; Paul Thomas Anderson
“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
I am a book covered with blackness, scars and mysteries. I just hope for people to judge me by my cover. I just don’t want them to read into me and see the fragile heart I am.
Bshayer F.R. (via wnq-writers)
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
-Michel de Montaigne
La Seu Vella, Lleida, Catalonia. Photos by Adeline Gressin
When Oscar Wilde said, "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars," and, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all," and, "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚞, 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟸)
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)