#of

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#humor #i #sense #sense of humor

How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had? ↗

— Rachel Caine

#death

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe. ↗

— Sting

#given #go #i #logical #often

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#band #first #map #off #started

Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse. ↗

— Ali Sheikh

#life #office #politics #business

He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him. ↗

— Angela Carter

#baudelaire #boredom #love #art

Want wat is contact tussen mensen, tussen de mens en de wereld, tussen hem en zijn tijd, anders dan een substituut voor het contact dat geen vragen onbeantwoord laat? Dit boek gaat over de aard van dat verlangen. Over de voorstellingen die in plaats komen van wat we willen omarmen, maar wat we niet kunnen omarmen. En zo komt ook dit boek, net als ieder ander boek, in plaats van wat ik eigenlijk wilde zeggen, maar waar de woorden niet voor zijn. ↗

— Coen Simon

#verlangen #men

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor. ↗

— Charles Dow

#pride #men

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion. ↗

— Georges Rodenbach

#religion #the-bells-of-bruges #art

To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a joy that dwells in the highest and holiest regions of the terrestrial paradise, that they may make it the highest prize of virtue, the most glorious conquest of genius, the first force of human progress. ↗

— Lidia Yuknavitch

#daughters-of-eve #dora #lidia #yuknavitch #love