“love is just a chemical reaction” yeah bitch well so is coke and mentos but its still fucking epic!!!
Honestly the fact that Pride and Prejudice remains as one of the most important and beloved pieces of romantic fiction in spite of its total lack of what we recognise as passion in the modern day just fascinates me to no end. Awkward, proper, sexless Mr. Darcy is still getting hearts racing in a culture where we’ve been acclimatised to a much raunchier standard and that’s so goddamn impressive.
“What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.”— Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism
pls drink a lot of wine and be extraordinarily well read and buy too much perfume and write a few too many love letters and spread affection and poetry wherever you go
“Arete (Greek: ἀρετή), in its basic sense, means “excellence of any kind”. The term may also mean “moral virtue”. In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one’s full potential.”— Wikipedia
“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.”— Susan Sontag
“The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.”— Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden
If you read physical books, that’s great!
If you read ebooks, that’s also great!
If you listen to audio books, amazing!
Reading takes different forms. Don’t shame others because their reading habits are different than yours.
i killed a plant once because i gave
it too much water. lord, i worry
that love is violence.— José Olivarez, from “Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains,” Citizen Illegal
(Source: lifeinpoetry)