"One of Socrates’ main pedagogical acts was to be ugly—and teach those innocent, no doubt splendid-looking disciples of his how full of paradoxes life really was."
Susan Sontag, A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? (via la-femme-terrible)
Susan Sontag, A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source? (via la-femme-terrible)
(Source: oblivion-soave, via mydisdain)
“The Three Oddest Words,”
by Wislawa SzymborskaWhen I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
