Daniel Chester French, The Sons Of God Saw The Daughters Of Men

Succession〡S2E8

I want to go back to the beginning. We all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. But I’m wrong.

Gregory Orr, from Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved

okay im remembering this painting of like a tiny dog sitting in a big red armchair. and it was painted in 1920 by a german guy and the title was like augustus or claudius or something hearkening back to past imperial grandeur. does anyone know what im talking about searching “german dog sitting in chair painting” just gets me a bunch of bad photoshop novelty wall art ripping off dogs playing poker

John Sloan - Turning out the Light (1905)

It seemed to me that I had dreamt about her once, when I was a boy or a teenager: a dream with the scent of orange trees in blossom.

– Agustín Cadena, from “Murillo Park,” Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (Small Beer Press, 2011)

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.”

— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Jollipop Puppy

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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

you ever been milked big time?

I was the only almond at Silk for 5 years

i hate him so i bully him

justice for jesse