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“The danger in totalitarian movements is that the elite’s justified moral disgust at hypocrisy is translated into a carnival of destruction that is just so much fun.” ―Roger Berkowitz
by anokarina

Movements “conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself.” —Hannah Arendt
by anokarina

THE GLOBE SHRINKS FOR THOSE THAT OWN IT 👊
by anokarina

“What the [concentration] camps provided was training and experimentation in what absolute terror and undefined terror could accomplish — the denial of reality and the breaking of the human spirit.” —Roger Berkowitz
by anokarina

“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter.” ―Fernando Pessoa 🔥
by anokarina

Dwelling some 5000 years old
by dksesh

“No, where are you really from?” ―Zara Rahman
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“No one here gets out alive.” ―Jim Morrison 🌸 🎲 🌺 💦
by anokarina

Trumpzilla is “a litigious serial liar with a string of broken business ventures and the support of a former Klan leader.” —John Oliver
by anokarina

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🎨
by anokarina

Salad lunch, Italian style
by dksesh

“The truth is, there is absolutely nothing unique about my Russian experience. To live a privileged life in the West also means to engage in daily hypocrisy and selective blindness, no matter who’s in charge.” ―Michael Idov
by anokarina

“I Will Survive” ― @gloria.gaynor 🔮
by anokarina

“Children begin to reflect their parents’ behavior from a very early age, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that many children are, in fact, unlikable.” ―Sabine Heinlein 🎨 👶
by anokarina

As one psychopath put it, “I love do-gooders because they do me such good.” 🎲 🐥
by anokarina

Misty station
by dksesh

“Even in our food, much of America is still segregated, especially when it comes to seasoning and expectations.” ―Mikki Kendall 🐔🍗
by anokarina

“That Lloyd could afford not to have much of an opinion—that he simply didn’t have to think about race while making choices big and small—was a privilege he had never considered.” ―Lauren Collins 🌸 🇺🇸 🌼
by anokarina

Bitter Gourd
by dksesh

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.” ―Christina Westover 🍟
by anokarina

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
by anokarina

“That Lloyd could afford not to have much of an opinion—that he simply didn’t have to think about race while making choices big and small—was a privilege he had never considered.” ―Lauren Collins 🎨
by anokarina

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.” ―Lao Tzu 🔥
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“He persists at his job even though Trump broadly hints that he will soon fire him. When Spicer is gone, he will be easily replaced. Washington is full of people who have no honor and no pride, either.” —Richard Cohen
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“And you will see how beautiful it is to be gentle instead of brutal, safe instead of scared. Befriended instead of isolated. Loved instead of hated.” —Arundhati Roy
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Circular symmetry
by dksesh

“What has become almost laughably clear is that Kusama’s mirrored investigations into existentialism and infinity have become theaters of infinite narcissism.” ―Sarah Boxer 🎨
by anokarina

“a word after a word after a word is power” ―Margaret Atwood / “The Handmaid’s Tale,” 1985
by anokarina

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters.” ―Trumpzilla 🎲
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“Leaders of these mass totalitarian movements do not need to believe in the truth of their lies and ideological clichés. The point of their fabrications is not to establish facts, but to create a coherent fictional reality.” —Roger Berkowitz
by anokarina

IMG_8353
by zzkt

“Technology moves fast, but its speed now slows us down.” ―Ian Bogost
by anokarina

“The truth is, in China, at least, the last thing a marriage is about is the relationship between two people.” ―Li 🎲 👰 🎲
by anokarina

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” ―George Bernard Shaw 👶
by anokarina

“Despacito” ―Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee, 2017 🌹
by anokarina

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.” ―George Vaillant
by anokarina

“it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.” ―Anne Morrow Lindbergh 🎨
by anokarina

Raindrop on Window
by dksesh

“It’s the sort of contradictory messaging a pregnant woman receives: you’re hot, but on the border of obscene; you’re perfect, but you’re huge; don’t feel bad about yourself, but your thin body is better.” ―Anne Helen Petersen
by anokarina

“...better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some.” —The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, as adapted by Hulu, s01 e04 e05
by anokarina

“But Bannon is not talking about the Islamic religion; his target is not Islam but the demonization of Islam as a means to justify a war that would reinvigorate American nationalism.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🎲
by anokarina

“He will have achieved the exact opposite of what he believed he was going to achieve when he set out to do this in the first place.” ―Alec Baldwin
by anokarina

Took the kids out; made them answer to Drogon 🐊 ―that was extremely satisfying 🔥 WINTER IS HERE ❄️
by anokarina

“However, less than one hundred hours after the 2016 election, my assumption that virtue overcomes corruption seemed utterly naive.” ―Nicole Pasulka
by anokarina

“Every one of us wears a mask that conceals a dark cabinet of hidden vices behind our public personas.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🎲
by anokarina

Cobweb citadel
by dksesh

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” —Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men 🔮🍪
by anokarina

“Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.” ―E.A. Bucchianeri ☁️
by anokarina

“I drink the honey inside your hive / You are the reason I stay alive” ―Nine Inch Nails 🍯
by anokarina

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ―Edith Wharton
by anokarina

“...and then by also allowing selfies in it, Kusama has created the perfect art experience for the social-media age.” ―Sarah Boxer 🎨
by anokarina

“On the path to total domination, terror is the essence of totalitarian governance.” —Roger Berkowitz
by anokarina

“Two years in classrooms at long tables surrounded by faces as white as the paper we printed our work on. I felt like the black text on that paper, forcefully marching across the landscape of my peers’ white lives.” —Minda Honey
by anokarina

“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” ―Wallace Stevens 💦⛲️
by anokarina

“What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?” ―Margaret Atwood 🌅
by anokarina

“Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.” ―Colleen Hoover 🐦
by anokarina

Frontal View - model of a 5000 year old straw hut
by dksesh

“It [is] ‘such a great misfortune’, [Edgar Allen Poe] thought, to lose the capacity to be alone with oneself, to get caught up in the crowd, to surrender one’s singularity to mind-numbing conformity.” —Jennifer Stitt
by anokarina

―it's a robot; it's a dog. It's a robot dog! 🐕
by anokarina

“Vision is a subtractive process: The human eye sees only what’s left behind, unabsorbed.” ―Malia Wollan 🎨
by anokarina