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“The beauty of a naked body is only appreciated by cultures that use clothing. Modesty is important for sensuality like resistance for energy.”
— Fernando Pessoa
For the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentially of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art…In life, a man commits himself, draws in his own portrait and there is nothing but that portrait.
A good mixture of nothing and everything is eating up my head alive.
“The beauty of a naked body is only appreciated by cultures that use clothing. Modesty is important for sensuality like resistance for energy.”
— Fernando Pessoa
“What does it mean to love somebody? It is always to seize that person in a mass, extract him or her from a group, however small, in which he or she participates, whether it be through the family only or through something else; then to find that person’s own packs, the multiplicities he or she encloses within himself or herself which may be of an entirely different nature.”
— Gilles Deleuze. Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia
“I drink from your gash. I spread your naked legs, I open them like a book where I read what kills me.”
— Georges Bataille (via odetofemininity)
“But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood…”
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Robert E. Howard, The Bloody Crown of Conan
“Do not give yourself away. Never give yourself away. Observe the bloodshed but preserve your warmth. I want you to occasionally let go; but never surrender.”
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
“We met, we recognized each other, we abandoned ourselves one to the other. We have lived a love of burning, pure crystal. Do you realize what happiness we have, and what has been given to us?”
— María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952
“What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
— Albert Camus, from Selected Works; “The Plague,” published c. 1947
“To have a feeling for landscape, you have to lose your feeling of place.”— Jean-François Lyotard, from Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, ed. James Corner (Princeton Architectural Press, 1999)
