“Sexual intercourse is not necessary to preserve health and manly vigor.” Well, that’s a relief.

“Sexual intercourse is not necessary to preserve health and manly vigor.”

Well, that’s a relief.

“”Pick up” acquaintances often take girls autoriding, to cafes and to theatres with the intention of leading them into sex relations. Disease or child-birth may follow.”

“”Pick up” acquaintances often take girls autoriding, to cafes and to theatres with the intention of leading them into sex relations. Disease or child-birth may follow.”

“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!”
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1605-15
Egon Schiele, “Seated woman with bent knee” (1917)

Egon Schiele, “Seated woman with bent knee” (1917)

Frederick McCubbin, “Down on his luck”, 1889

Frederick McCubbin, “Down on his luck”, 1889

Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon Joseph Solomon,1886

Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon Joseph Solomon,1886

Buster Keaton in The General.

Buster Keaton in The General.

Aboriginal soldier with fellow Aussie - World War II.

Aboriginal soldier with fellow Aussie - World War II.

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
  
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
  
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile

e.e. cummings

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman (via fayestreal)
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via talkativolive)
“Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too.”
Tennessee Williams (via laceofpearls)

(Source: quote-book)