Carpe Omnia

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‘Did you eat something that didn’t agree with you?’ asked Bernard.
The Savage nodded. ‘I ate civilization.’
‘What?’
‘It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,’ he added, in a lower tone, ‘I ate my own wickedness.’

— Brave New World

slaughterhouse90210:

“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Reblogged from Slaughterhouse 90210

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If all the men in the room are wearing dinner clothes then instead of making them all look the same it actually emphasizes their differences. I think people really miss that, not formality, but having a standard.

— Glenn O’Brien [paraphrasing Anne Hollander]

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Champagne for my real friends. Real pain for my sham friends.

— 25th Hour