The only surviving footage of a silent 1926 version of The Great Gatsby scripted by F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. Starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Georgia Hale, and William Powell.
(Source: theparisreview.org)
A book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
━ Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
(via kafkaesque-world)
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life.Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.They say to me in their awakening, “You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea.”And in my dream I say to them, “I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
━ Khalil Gibran (1926)
(Source: potterfluff7, via stolenmangos)
Perhaps death is not the hardest thing in a painter’s life… looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn’t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star…
━ Vincent van Gogh (via fckyeaharthistory)
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this improve our position in the struggle against Fascism.
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Walter Benjamin “Theses on the Philosophy of History”
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“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
I hate the word ‘slut’ because it creates this weird binary concept in our minds. Women are either sluts or they’re prudes … We assume that men are inherently sexually-driven creatures, the natural initiators, that the desire for sex is their prerogative. Whereas we assume women aren’t particularly sexual … It’s as if a woman who looks as if she desires sex is unnatural and a bit masculine. Ideally she should play coy until a virile man comes along to fulfil his own pleasure while she submits. She has no personal sexual stake in the act so her participation in the sex is the ultimate act of servitude to him. If you use the word ‘slut’ you deny women their right to be satisfied sexually.
━ Frieda Rose (via friedarosequotes)
From the CUHK Anthropology blog a new book on the ‘Occupy’ movement.
“It’s important to stress the obvious: Not all those who campaign against gay men and lesbians secretly feel same-sex attractions. But at least some who oppose homosexuality are likely to be individuals struggling against parts of themselves, having themselves been victims of oppression and lack of acceptance. The costs are great, not only for the targets of anti-gay efforts but also often for the perpetrators. We would do well to remember that all involved deserve our compassion.”
