“I don’t know why; I like you just as you are, with all your faults.”
— Colette, tr. by Matthew Ward, from Stories; “My Friend Valentine: Letter,”
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“I like warmth, comfort and peacefulness. You scare me.”
— Pierre Reverdy, from The Collected Poems; “Clear Winter,” wr. c. 1929
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“The doctrine that submission to violence is the best cure for violence did not hold good as between slaves and overseers. He was whipped oftener who was whipped easiest.”
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and supporter of women’s rights
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I am current reading this book. ^^
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“The part of you that I really love best is the part that goes wild,”
— Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Harold Nicholson c. July 1936
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My favorite thing to come out Black Panther is the renewed use of the word “colonizer” as an insult.
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Jeffrey Eugenides | .@wnq-quotes
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Paul Delvaux - Sleeping Venus, 1947
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A. A. Milne | @wnq-quotes
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One shouldn’t be afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
Ivo Andrić (via quotemadness)
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Me high at the art gallery
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