Sex: a sweet poison only to the withered, but to the lion-willed the great cordial and the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.”

Madonna

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.”

Mario Vargas Llosa

“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”

Søren Kierkegaard

“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”

Marcel Proust

“I’m convinced we all are voyeurs. It’s part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There’s an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: […]

Comes to mind when I think about the recent siege in Sydney.

And how quick some were to reject #illridewithyou as ‘white helping’, as patronizing grandstanding by people unprepared to question their own racism.

It’s a start, at least.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then […]