I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.
Gingers & Vampires - Imgur
Posted this one on Reddit yesterday and it gained 2000 upvotes and near 800 points. Now to share with my Tumblr community.
cloversandpine:
ALEX
That’s still not changing the fact I strongly loathe this Stygian-born black flame of a thousand Infernos with the blazing intensity of the tempestuous fury of gods and Titans! English BA, here I come!
Consciously or unconsciously, we manipulate our memories to include or omit certain aspects. Are our memories therefore fictions?
Art is not truth; art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth.
No artist tolerates reality.
… he who best discerns the worth of time/ is most distressed whenever time is lost
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Alighieri, Dante. “Purgatorio”
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My Mini-Memoir (just an assignment for my literature course)
When the mind is master of itself, threats are no matter.
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Sophocles, “Oedipus at Colonus”
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