“Someone might say: “Are you not ashamed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?” However, I should be right to reply to him: “You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.””
— Socrates, in Plato’s Apology
James Dean as Caleb Trask East of Eden (1955) dir. Elia Kazan
Ballerina(2023)
Dir. Chung-Hyun Lee
James Dean in EAST OF EDEN (1955) dir. Elia Kazan
“I do not believe there is another world in which we shall have to “render account.” But we already have our account to render in this world — to all those we love.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951
“wow i can’t believe george conveniently wrote all of dany’s enemies to be CARTOONISHLY evil, no redeeming qualities whatsoever he obviously did this on purpose to set up the mad dany arc.” i don’t know how to break this to you but that’s just how slave owners are. like yeah you would have to be pretty cartoonishly evil to consider another human being your property…pick up a history book.
i watched Kill Bill vol. 1 earlier
Scary Tales.
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” - Marcus Aurelius
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
— Aldous Huxley, “A Case of Voluntary Ignorance”, Collected Essays