September 2010
105 posts
“Don’t you love heavy fragrances, faint with sweetness, ravishing juices of...”
– Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods
“And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left...”
– Dangerous Liaisons, 1988
“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if...”
– Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949
“The bullet had just struck her in the side of the head; the blood had not even...”
– Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
“Amanda tried writing a card or something. She wrote that she and her fiancé had...”
– Allegra Goodman, La Vita Nuova (via nightmarebrunette)
“…love is so beautiful, yet so ephemeral. We love love, but we hate it so...”
– La Tristesse d’Amour
“Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long,...”
– Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul...”
– James Baldwin
“You are always able to convince yourself that this video, this DVD, this...”
– Peter Saville, A Few Things I Know About Pornography
“Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on...”
– Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility,...”
– Luis Bunuel
“Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an...”
– E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream...”
– Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“I’m 100% gay and about 20% in gay society. Sometimes I’m more comfortable in...”
– John Waters (via sissydudeomen2)
“The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That’s pride fucking...”
– Pulp Fiction, 1994
“All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I’d wear a lot of high...”
– Isaac Mizrahi
“You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need...”
– Franz Kafka
“Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all...”
– George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
