Ezekiah

⬡ 22 ⬡ France ⬡ Medical Student ⬡ Tell me, Atlas. What is heavier : the world or its people’s hearts ?

[madeline-kahn]

“They say he won two medals for gallantry in the war.“

Peaky Blinders Episode 1.01

[theqissus]

“Lover, hunter, friend and enemy. You will always be every one of these.” 

Love and War by Fleurie

[tsaifilms]

Hanna (2011) Directed by Joe Wright

[ek-sepia]

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” Nicccolo Machiavelli

[isophhia]

[niktipolos]

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.

Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman (via provst)

[ek-sepia]

“Being in minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.“

[idevenkk-deactivated20180630]

The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris 1988)

[chasingspacey]

“How was your day?” 

House of Cards, Chapter 4 (2013)

[fuckyeahthegodfather-blog]

[ek-sepia]

(via fuckyeahthegodfather-blog)

[meiselr]

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse + Aesthetics

Conquest

[ek-sepia]

[ek-sepia]

[ek-sepia]

“You shouldn’t be here.”

[ek-sepia]

[kafkaesque-world]

The look in Kafka’s eyes was always a little puzzled, full of the wisdom of children and of melancholy slightly counter pointed by an enigmatic smile. He always seemed to be somewhat embarrassed.

Johannes Urzidil, The Kafka Problem (via kafkaesque-world)

[dailyminimal]