"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway (via lizattemptstoblog)
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
Kurt Vonnegut (via creativecloud)
"I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via popculturesmash)
"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
1984, George Orwell (via freins)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
"..It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in a life."
"the sky did not cherish the stars more surely and eternally than she would guard the good in the soul of Paul Morel."
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
"I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
