Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collectors passion borders on the chaos of memories. – Walter Benjamin
What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whores lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte — there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away. – Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac