Minerva

A dull sensation of irritation, sometimes self-conscious, but more often only recognized as a vague, irresistible discontent, keeps the aspiring in a state of gloomy restlessness, so that the struggle for existence assumes brutal and desperate phases never known before. -Arishima

«Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends. All-too-long have a slave and a tyrant been concealed in woman. Therefore woman is not yet capable of friendship: she knows only love. [...] But tell me, you men, who among you is capable of friendship?» - Friedrich Nietzsche

the enemy of woman is not woman per se, but the inferior woman, the deformed woman.

Ignudo, detail from the Drunkenness of Noah, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1509.

The soul projects and Introjects continuously to attain its liberation.

Dawn (Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1907).

Time Clipping the Wings of Love - Johann Zoffany, 1761.

«Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.»