"Adaptation to to the modern world requires sclerosis of sensibility and degradation of character."
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila (via spiritvs-evropa)
(via badb-catha)
"Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
— William Hutchinson Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)
(Source: zerogate)
"Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don’t write them down."
— W.B. Kinsella (via writingquotes)
"What I’m going to do is, I’m going to declare moral bankruptcy,” I said. “I mean, we keep using the term in that sense, why not follow it through? When a man can no longer discharge his financial obligations, we let him off the hook. Why not when he can no longer meet his ethical ones? I have too many emotional creditors hounding me, I tell you! That’s all there is to it. A man who simply cannot meet all the demands made on his resources, simply cannot be expected to keep his books balanced. It’s too much. Everybody keeps talking about moral bankruptcy but nobody does anything about it. Well, I’m going to. I’m going to declare it. I’m going into receivership. I’m going to pay everybody so much on the dollar.”
“In other words, Duxbury,” she said, calling me by my last name as people affectionately do, “you want to tell your wife about us.”
“I do,” I said, “and I’ve spoken those words only once before in my life."
— Peter De Vries. Without a Stitch in Time. (HT Helen Rittelmeyer.com)
"He was a man,” said Conan. “I drink to his shade, and to the shade of the dog, who knew no fear.” He quaffed part of the wine, then emptied the rest upon the floor, with a curious heathen gesture, and smashed the goblet. “The heads of ten Picts shall pay for his, and seven heads for the dog, who was a better warrior than many a man."
— Conan in “Beyond the Black River” by Robert E. Howard (HT Dynasty Zero)
(via turner-d-century)
Possibly to such a tea set as this at http://devilduck.tumblr.com/post/29205637566/blerdgirlchronicles-deantrippe-if-you-could
(Source: sherlock-quotes)
