“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes, and firm as a rock.” (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

#doriangray #oscarwilde truths about optimism. (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

“The advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.” #doriangray #oscarwilde (Taken with instagram)

Continued: “His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are two things that govern us.” #doriangray #oscarwilde

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poeticallyundead:

She’s poison with a smile
lies and self denial
a vixen with a trick up her sleeve 
to make you believe
she could be your everything
when all she wants
is to tear you down
and as you’re weeping on the ground
she moves onto new prey
a new game to play
but the tactics are the same
she’s evil to the core
but when she doesn’t speak
a single truth
it’s hard to know the reason why
difficult to feel pity
for a villain 
but when she finds herself
utterly alone
only then will she see
the harm she’s done

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"She was docile and good tempered, yet gay and playful as a summer insect. Although she was lively and animated, her feelings were strong and deep, and her disposition uncommonly affectionate. No one could better enjoy liberty, yet no one could submit with more grace than she did to constraint and caprice. Her imagination was luxuriant, yet her capability of application was great. Her person was the image of her mind; her hazel eyes, although as lively as a bird’s, possessed an attractive softness. Her figure was light and airy; and, though capable of enduring great fatigue, she appeared the most fragile creature in the world."

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

1818 text

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"Laws are only words words written on paper words that change on society’s whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally despite race, religion or economic status is a fool."

John J. Miller

(Source: pigcharmer)

Wow.

If the ‘new nation’ was truly so much better, then how can this person not see or understand the reason those in Africa suffer as they do?

I honestly cannot believe this.

I’m disgusted by humans, highly disgusted.

"Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say."

Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (via dylanlenz)