-Virginia Woolf

i do, often, think of that quote from wislawa szymborska talking about love and the inexplicability of some of it. "great love is never justified" etc. and it truly isn't. and thank god for that.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 20 March 1928

Change is scary, but necessary. Accept the challenge. You got this.

“Even when you think you can’t bear it, you can bear it.”

— Lauren Groff, Arcadia

"They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Know when to be a lion, and when to be a gazelle.

“Men respond only faintly to the horrors that take place around them, except at moments, when the savage, crying incongruity and ghastliness of our condition suddenly reveals itself vivid before our eyes, and we are forced to know what we are. Then the ground slides away from under our feet.”

— Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

— B. F. Skinner

Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese par Bob Carlos Clarke, 2005.