The veneration of physical beauty, the Instagramization of culture, is pagan to its roots. The overwhelming cascade of drugs, surgeries, and procedures intended to enhance one’s physical appearance—all precursors to “designer babies”—is a tribute to the externalization of our values.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
~ Franz Kafka
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
~ Charles Dickens
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
~ Charles Bukowski
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
~ Man Ray
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Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you’re so impossibly close is unbearable.
~ Herta Müller
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To mislead a rival, deception is permissible; one may use all means against his enemies.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
~ Franz Kafka
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~ Will Rogers
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I do not understand why, when I ask for a grilled lobster in a restaurant, I am never served a cooked telephone.
~ Salvador Dali
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