Horus Rising

"I was there the day Horus turned his face from the Emperor."

"I was there the day that Horus fell."

Know No Fear"War is acceptable when it is a necessary instrument of survival. When it is no longer needed, the very fact that it was ever a necessary instrument at all becomes unpalatable ( Read more... )

I've been to paradise, and it didn't have you in it.

- Josh, post-Stanley farm weekend.

Don't kid yourself... This isn't hell, and you're not the devil; you're merely practice.

- Josh (paraphrased off unknown, after Stanley farm weekend)

"You know you are right for someone when they force you to be the best version of yourself."

- Danny Castellano

“The answer of love is ‘I am what is lacking in you; with my devotion to you, with my sacrifice for you, I will fill you out, I will complete you."

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK

"Say I am passionately attached, in love, or whatever, to another human being and I declare my love, my passion for him or her. There is always something shocking, violent in it. This may sound like a joke, but it isn't - you cannot do the game of erotic seduction in politically correct terms. There is a moment of violence, when you say: 'I love ( Read more... )

“...when do I actually encounter the Other 'beyond the wall of language', in the rel of his or her being? Not when I am able to describe her, not even when I learn her values, dreams, and so on, but only when I encounter the Other in her moment of jouissance: when I discern in her a tiny detail (a compulsive gesture, a facial expression, a tic) ( Read more... )

Until lions have their own historians, the tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

We are all afraid, and we fear because we still think that there is hope; the only hope we have to accept is the fact that we are already dead. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we will be able to function as we are supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassion. Without remorse.

You stand in the light drizzle, waiting for the lights to change. The glare of headlamps glint off the rain-soaked surface, and reflect dimly back to the darkness within your eyes. You stare into space, focusing on everything you see, and seeing nothing your eyes focus upon; the show goes on within your head - the background immaculate, the props ( Read more... )