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[meghli]

James Baldwin’s diagnosis of weepy carelords, oversharers, and other sentimentalists.[x]

[lightnessandbeauty]

Fascism started with censoring art, books and freedom of speech. We all know what happend after that…

In times like this, nothing is more important than respecting the value of free art, of beauty, of melancholy, of love, of life…

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[goodbyedearfriends-deactivated2]

Latin phrases to use as incantations.

This is gonna be a long list.

ab intra - from within

ab origine - from the source

absit iniuria - “let insult be absent”

absit invidia - “let envy be absent”

absit omen - “let omens be absent”

ab uno disce omnes - from one, learn all.

abyssus abyssum invocat - deep calleth unto deep

a capite ad calcem - from head to heel

acta non verba - actions not words

ad altiora tendo - “I strive to higher things”

ad astra - to the stars

ad fontes - to the sources

ad meliora - towards better things

ad oculos - to the eyes

ad undas - to the waves

ad victoriam - to victory

adsum - I am here

a fortiori - from the stronger/from strength

a mari usque ad mare - from sea to sea

audeamus - let us dare

audentes fortuna iuvat - fortune favors the bold

audi, vide, tace - hear, see, be silent

beatae memoriae - of blessed memory

bona fide - in good faith

bono malum superate - overcome evil with good

capax infiniti - holding the infinite

carpe diem - seize the day

carpe noctem - seize the night

cave - beware

ceteris paribus - all other things being equal

circa - around

citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger

clavis aurea - golden key

cogito ergo sum - I think, therefor I am

compos mentis - in control of the mind

concilio et labore - by wisdom and effort

concordia cum veritate - in harmony with truth

concordia salus - well-being through harmony

coniunctis viribus - with connected strength

consummatum est - it is complete

corruptus in extremis - corrupt to the extreme

crescit eundo - it grows as it goes

de novo - from the new

de profundis - from the depths

dies irae - day of wrath

dona nobis pacem - give us peace

ego te provoco - I challenge you

esse est percipi - to be is to be perceived  

esse quam videri - to be, rather than to seem

esto quod es - be what you are

ex animo - from the soul

ex luna scientia - from the moon, knowledge

ex scientia tridens - from knowledge, sea power

ex silentio - from silence

ex undis - from the waves of the sea

experientia docet - experience teaches

fac et spera - do and hope

fac fortia et patere - do brave deed and endure

faciam quodlibet quod necesse est - I’ll do whatever it takes

faciam ut mei memineris - I’ll make you remember me

facta, non verba - deeds, not words

fortis et liber - strong and free

fortis in arduis - strong in difficulties

gloriosus et liber - glorious and free

hic abundant leones - here lions abound

hic et nunc - here and now

hic sunt dracones - here there are dragons

hinc illae lacrimae - hence those tears

hinc itur ad astra - from here the way leads to the stars

igni ferroque - with fire and iron

in memoriam - into the memory

in nocte consilium - advice comes over night

libra - balance

littera scripta manet - the written words endure

locus standi - a right to stand

luceo non uro - I shine, not burn

luctor et emergo - I struggle and emerge

mare liberum - free sea

memento vivere - remember to live

more ferarum - like beasts

natura non contristatur - nature is not saddened

nec spe, nec metu - without hope, without fear

noli me tangere - do not touch me

ophidia in herba - a snake in the grass

pro se - for oneself

propria manu - by one’s own hand

quaere - to seek

quod abundat non obstat - what is abundant does not hinder

resurgam - I shall arise

semper ad meliora - always towards better things

semper anticus - always forward

semper apertus - always open

semper fortis - always brave

semper liber - always free

stet - let it stand

tuebor - I will protect

vera causa - true cause

[pennysoccularrepository]

[theoffingmag]

I traced myself in peppermint oil, for protection. Torqued each leaf into place. During the storm, each room filled with water, a jar always brimming. An escape from daily pronouns. I rubbed out the candle and in the dark a fan still swung, slow whooms, whoom, and then it stopped.

S. Brook Corfman, “NIGHTLY RHYTHM,” published in The Offing (via mudwerks)

[malefica67]

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

Ellen Von Unwerth (via malefica67)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1926

[closetquean]

Best BDSM Movies as per Ranker.com

Secretary-Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader Lesley Ann Warren

Story of O-Udo Kier, Corinne Cléry Anthony Steel

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Hellraiser-Doug Bradley, Andrew Robinson Ashley Laurence

Flower & Snake-Aya Sugimoto

The Image-Rebecca Brooke, Marilyn Roberts Carl Parker

Tokyo Decadence-Masahiko Shimada, Yayoi Kusama Miho Nikaido

The Pet-Lydia McLane, Pierre Dulat Magi Avila

Exit to Eden-Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Aykroyd Dana Delany

The Notorious Bettie Page-Norman Reedus, Sarah Paulson Gretchen Mol

8mm-Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix James Gandolfini

Preaching to the Perverted-Keith Allen, Roger Lloyd-Pack Ricky Tomlinson

The Night Porter-Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde Isa Miranda

Nymphomaniac: Volume II-Willem Dafoe, Shia LaBeouf Christian Slater

Belle De Jour

Personal Services-Julie Walters, Michelle Collins Alec McCowen

Fifty Shades Darker-Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan Rita Ora

Nymphomaniac: Volume IUma Thurman, Willem Dafoe Shia LaBeouf

24/7: The Passion of Life-Christoph Baumann, Marina Anna Eich Mira Gittner

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Matador-Antonio Banderas, Pedro Almodóvar Carmen Maura

9½ Weeks-Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger Christine Baranski

El Jardín Secreto-Assumpta Serna, Xabier Elorriaga Taida Urruzola

Tightrope-Clint Eastwood, Alison Eastwood Geneviève Bujold

Crash-Holly Hunter, James Spader Rosanna Arquette

Going Under-Roger Rees, Mary Elizabeth King Richard Eagan

Walk All over Me-Tricia Helfer, Leelee Sobieski Michael Eklund

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist-Bob Flanagan, Kirby Dick Rita Valencia

Graphic Sexual Horror-Lorelei Lee, Princess Donna Cyd Black

Antichrist-Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm

Kink

The Cell-Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn Vincent D'Onofrio

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!-Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril Rossy de Palma

Fifty Shades of Grey-Rita Ora, Dakota Johnson Marcia Gay Harden

Swept Away-Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato Isa Danieli

The Cell 2-Tessie Santiago, Frank Whaley Bart Johnson

[schopenhauerquotes]

“In opposition to the mentioned form of the Kantian principle: When you come into contact with a man, no matter whom, do not attempt an objective appreciation of him according to his worth and dignity. Do not consider his bad will, or his narrow understanding and perverse ideas; as the former may easily lead you to hate and the latter to despise him; but fix your attention only upon his sufferings, his needs, his anxieties, his pains. Then you will always feel your kinship with him; you will sympathise with him; and instead of hatred or contempt you will experience the commiseration that alone is the peace to which the Gospel calls us. The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man’s alleged “dignity,” but, on the contrary, to regard him as an object of pity.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, On Human Nature

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

What fields are as fragrant as your hands?

Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “What Fields are as Fragrant as your Hands?,” (via writemeanna)

[fyp-psychology]

begin to see yourself as a soul with a body, rather than a body with a soul.

wayne dyer (via bohemianwaif-gypsysoul)

[punlovsin]

Everything she said, was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

S.PLATH (via punlovsin)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, July 29, 1934

[eenock]

..Not even close to the most horrifying of Anthropocene tortures was being taken to jail on acid."... That is an atrocity for sure. The brutality of this government is very shocking, disgusting, perverted, and pure evil, how do you all stand ignoring it? You all just put it all in a little box somewhere and crush it? Where are the revolutionaries?

[punlovsin]

And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy, and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.

Zelda Fitzgerald (via punlovsin)

[punlovsin]

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions.

C.LISPECTOR (via punlovsin)