"Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as ‘doing nothing’."

Alain de Botton (via seabois)

(via seabois)

"Lovely one,
Your waist,
My arm shaped it like a river when
It flowed a thousand years through your sweet body,
Lovely one."

Pablo Neruda (via man-of-prose)

"Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget."

William S. Burroughs (via allmymetaphors)

(via man-of-prose)

"I don’t remember lighting this cigarette, and I don’t remember if i’m here alone or waiting for someone."

Leonard Cohen (via twentysevenafternoons)

"Addiction is tricky. For example: a man who quit smoking for 11 years spent 15 seconds in an elevator with a man smoking a cigarette. He gave in.
What I’m trying to say is I think I love you again."

Unknown (via slutstatus)

(Source: alienveins, via foreverstoned-)

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity"

Friedrich Nietzsche (via man-of-prose)