Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. — Katherine Mansfield (via aslovelyasatree)

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The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917, France)

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The body is both a pleasure palace and a torture chamber. — Charles Levin (via desirenoir)
There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain. — Brian Setzer (via desirenoir)
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — ― Tom Robbins (via gene-how)

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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright, architect (1867-1959)
Life is the path you beat while you walk it. — Antonio Machado (via lyssahumana)
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best. — Henry Van Dyke (via lyssahumana)
You need the sort of facilities where you can have a cuppa tea and wander around the garden and then come in and do whatever you have to do, instead of walking into a studio… down a flight of steps into fluorescent lights and opening up a big door that’s soundproof and there’s acoustic tiles everywhere. — Jimmy Page on Headley Grange. From NME, 1971 (via fuckyeahzeppelin)
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir (via lyssahumana)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde (via lyssahumana)
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. — Louis Pasteur (via lyssahumana)
break wild roses, scatter them over her.
The thorns between us sting like love’s pain.
Her flesh, bitter and salt to my tongue,
I taste with endless kisses and taste again

Elsa Gidlow
1898-1986
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Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… – Joss Whedon — (via slightlysinfulone)

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