Faded.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

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—	Albert Camus (via arpeggia)

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love’s tragedies.

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—	Oscar Wilde

When we look round the world at the present day and ask our selves what conditions seem on the whole to make for happiness in marriage and what for unhappiness, we are driven to a somewhat curious conclusion: that the more civilized people become the less capable they seem of lifelong happiness with one partner.

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—	Marriage and Morals, Bertrand Russell

For all mortal things, Socrates, are forever coming and going, passing on and being replaced. And though every human being may be said to remain the same person from infancy to old age, nevertheless each is undergoing constant alteration, for he is continuously suffering both the ravages and revisions of time. All kinds of decay and renewal take place in his skin, his hair, his bones and blood, in his whole body for that matter, and not only in his body, but in his soul, too. His thoughts and ways and beliefs, his pleasures, pains, and fears, nothing remains the same. New elements are always appearing as old ones disappear.

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—	Plato’s Symposium (via thewondererthinks)

Two Anatomical Models, 17th Century.
A pair of models with removable chest and abdomen covers. Some religious restrictions on dissection were lifted in the 15th century, which led to the wider study of anatomy, using models like these as extra teaching aids. Both figures show the heart and lungs. One shows a pregnant female with a baby in the uterus, and the other the kidney and intestines in a male.

Two Anatomical Models, 17th Century.

A pair of models with removable chest and abdomen covers. Some religious restrictions on dissection were lifted in the 15th century, which led to the wider study of anatomy, using models like these as extra teaching aids. Both figures show the heart and lungs. One shows a pregnant female with a baby in the uterus, and the other the kidney and intestines in a male.

bloodmilk:

Ted Lawson via Hi-Fructose

theonlymagicleftisart:

(John Paul Thurlow)

philphys:

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.”

-William S. Burroughs

scientificillustration:

Representative ontogenetic stages of elephants. Lateral view of specimens (left) and three-dimensional reconstruction of computerized tomography (CT) scans of skeleton (right) in (a) a 99 day-old specimen (age reconstructed from CRL as described in the text and Hildebrandt et al. [15]), PMLER 1, CRL = 34.7 mm; (b) a 118 day-old specimen, PMLER 2, CRL = 59.3 mm; and (c) a 176 day-old specimen, PMLER 8, CRL = 171.4 mm. (d) Close-up of the pelvic girdle showing a fourth ossification centre. cd, caudal vertebrae; cv, cervical vertebrae; f, femur; fb, fibula; h, humerus; il, ilium; is, ischium; lb, lumbar vertebrae; mc, metacarpals; mp, manual phalanges; mt, metatarsals; p, pubis; pp, post-pubic bones; r, ribs; rd, radius; sa, sacral vertebrae; sc, scapula; t, tibia; th, thoracic vertebrae; u, ulna. Scale bars, 1 cm.

From: Skeletal development in the African elephant and ossification timing in placental mammals. Lionel Hautier1*, Fiona J. Stansfield, W. R. Twink Allen and Robert J. Asher, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2481