"In English, both senses of ‘gender’—the general meaning ‘type’ and the more specific grammatical distinction—coexisted happily for a long time. As late as the eighteenth century, ‘gender’ could still be used in an entirely sexless way. When the novelist Robert Bage wrote in 1784, ‘I also am a man of importance, a public man, Sir, of the patriotic gender,’ he meant nothing more than ‘type.’ …In the twentieth century, ‘gender’ became simply a euphemism for ‘sex,’ so if you find on some official form a request to fill in your ‘gender,’ you are unlikely nowadays to write ‘patriotic.’"
Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass
"I envy you.
Every moment, you can leave me.
I cannot leave myself."
Anna Świrszczyńska (via dyssomniac)
(Source: absentia)
"She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal."
Simone de Beauvoir (via ceedling)
(Source: misswallflower)
- Ysabell: Pardon me for living, I'm sure.
- Mort, as Death: NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.
- 'And what would humans be without love?'
- Rare, said Death.
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (via liquidnight)
I want paint to work as flesh, I know my idea of portraiture came from dissatisfaction with portraits that resembled people. I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having to look at the sitter, being them. As far as I am concerned, the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as the flesh does.
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads — as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world. - Susan Sontag, On Photography
“We’re going to sit at our desks and keep typing while the walls fall down around us because we’re creative - the least important, most important thing there is.“ - Don Draper, Mad Men
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
E. B. White, 1976
Good morning.
(Source: m3zzaluna)
Favorite Things Damien Hirst Said in “Damien Hirst - The First Look With Noel Fielding”
“I asked Cyrus, my son who’s 6, who he’d rather have in his bed, a zombie or a girl, and he said a zombie.”
“If someone asks me if it’s metaphor for death, I say ‘no, it’s a shark, you cu-’ but if they ask me if it’s just a shark, I say ‘no it’s a metaphor for death.’”
“I don’t believe in god. I don’t, there’s no way around it. My thing is, I believe in art, and my belief in art is religious.”
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