Shane

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach ‘back to nature’ or ‘forward to a world of love and beauty’; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell – that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.”
― Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies

“I read of men concerned in public affairs governing or massacring their species.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger