#vale

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#chinese culture #culture #different #equivalent #geisha

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! ↗

— Thomas Hood

#call #choose #day #every #every day

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#always #becomes #definition #equivalent #give

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. ↗

— Susie Bright

#everyone #i #kid #kindergarten #like

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#been #chapel #copy #equivalent #jackson

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#misattributed #paul-valery #writing #art

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy. ↗

— Zac Efron

#candy #day #did #flowers #friends

I want you to have this.” He extended his hand. On his palm sat the beautiful butterfly he had carved. Silver spots on the wings glinted in the sunlight, and a silver chain hung from a small hole drilled into its body. Valek looped the necklace around my neck. “When I carved this statue, I was thinking about you. Delicate in appearance, but with a strength unnoticed at first glance.” His eyes met mine. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#yelena #beauty

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. ↗

— Emmet Fox

#equivalent #mental #must #supply #thing