#we

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cannot #disgust #first #hand #horrors

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#also #between #capital #double #each

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#enigma #foundations #greatness #itself #negative

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#dancing #eager #faces #male #more

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#fast #flexible #gloves #i #normally

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#diapers #heroes #just #wear

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#first time #i #immediately #jumped #just

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#careful #crazy #lot #me #past

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#first #first of all #good #high #i