“All of use take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I’m afraid that when all is said and done the police are right; it all comes down to fingerprints.”
- David Sedaris, “Holidays On Ice”
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
-A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
(via useless-girlrage)
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
-Madeleine Albright
(via useless-girlrage)
How may the passing Now contain the standing Now — Eternity? —
An endless is without a was , the be and never the to-be?
— Richard Francis Burton, The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî
“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with that caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation I went to work!”
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Tell Tale Heart
There is more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid her than she’ll demand.
— William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well
“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
-Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
(via useless-girlrage)
O my Jesus, You know well that it is not for the reward that I serve You, but solely because I love You.
-Saint Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
(via useless-girlrage)
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-Marcel Proust
(via useless-girlrage)
A woman in her rightful place. In almost perfect attire for cleaning. Her high heels are missing. They should never come off. And also she needs a bit of an attitude adjustment. A smile on her face would make her much more pleasing to the eye while she does her chores. She has to remember that in addition to doing the household work a woman should always be a perfect decoration and something that is pleasing for the man to look at.
“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.”
— Betty Friedan
Everything for a friend, not even justice for an enemy.
— Juan Domingo Perón
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act upon their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
- T.E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisom: A Triumph
One begins with the idea that duality must be transformed into unity, and that social relations must culminate in communion. This is…the last vestige of idealism.
— Emmanuel Levinas, “The Other in Proust”