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“The easiest thing in the world to sell to men who feel disenfranchised from modern life, he says, is nostalgia—a promise that the world can change to fit them rather than the other way around.” ―Sophie Gilbert
by anokarina

“That’s correct, donut shop. We all deserve donuts.” 🍩
by anokarina

“But if planning the end of a relationship feels like plotting a murder, then planning the start of one feels more like donning a suicide vest.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 🎨
by anokarina

“And it means that too many conversations about inequality are never about the broader ramifications of the decisions people make, institutionally or personally.” ―Gene Demby 🎨
by anokarina

Sky over Weybridge
by dksesh

“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?” ―Bertolt Brecht 🍃 🍅
by anokarina

“nolite te bastardes carborundorum” = “don't let the bastards grind you down.” ―Margaret Atwood / “The Handmaid’s Tale,” 1985
by anokarina

“The world shrinks for those who own it.” ―Barbara Kruger: Belief+Doubt / Hirshhorn Museum 🎃
by anokarina

A sign at Hounslow
by dksesh

Leaves as in wings spreadout out
by dksesh

“I have trained myself, through dedicated practice on and off the mat, to find enough inner strength not to burst out laughing when the instructor ends the class by declaring ‘let the light in me honor the light in you.’” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina

“There is an abyss between the men of brilliant and facile conceptions and men of brutal deeds.” ―Hannah Arendt 🎲 🌴
by anokarina

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ―Thomas Merton 🎨
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AMERICA 🇺🇸
by anokarina

“Just as the experience of war does not prevent wars, ‘dwelling on the horrors’ of past totalitarianisms, Arendt argues, will not inoculate us from future totalitarianisms.” ―Roger Berkowitz
by anokarina

Growing
by VirtualWolf

A red rose
by dksesh

―the irrecoverable power of cheese 🌶
by anokarina

“...because nothing that is human can last.” ―Cleopatra
by anokarina

Exeter St. David's train at Weybridge
by dksesh

A French Toast Breakfast 🍞
by anokarina

A view of Hounslow
by dksesh

“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
by anokarina

by VirtualWolf

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
by anokarina

the onion ring of truth 🍔 🍅
by anokarina

“It’s very hard for most of us to tolerate being loved.” ―George Vaillant
by anokarina

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ―Hannah Arendt
by anokarina

“What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.” —Hannah Arendt
by anokarina

Red brick
by VirtualWolf

IMG_6940
by zzkt

A WHOLE LOTTA TROUBLE RIGHT HERE 🎲
by anokarina

“...the very way we deal with reality is by distorting it—and we do this unconsciously. When we start pulling at this thread, an awfully big spool of thoughts and questions begins to unravel onto the floor.” —Joshua Wolf Shenk
by anokarina

“Civil rights are not a consideration of the undernourished.” ―S•Town, Chapter IV, 28 March 2017
by anokarina

“As an artist right now there’s so much to work on and figure out and explain. I definitely shy away from ‘Trump is stupid’. No, he’s breaking the law. That's clear, I don't need to embellish.” ―Robin Bell
by anokarina

“The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.” ―George Orwell / “1984” 🐱
by anokarina

Beaming tree
by dksesh

“I can confirm that one does not walk 2,000 miles across the face of this country as a black woman without building up an incredible sense of self.” —Rahawa Haile
by anokarina

“Det kunne være værre (It could be worse).”
by anokarina

“[Humans] argue. Nature acts.” ―Voltaire 🍹 🍻 🍸 ✈️
by anokarina

“But then the truth reveals itself: the king is not her type and also he is not really a king.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 🎲
by anokarina

“...while turning women into victims or villains scratches some deep patriarchal itch, it doesn't help us understand how sexism actually works—and it certainly doesn't help us make the world better for women as a whole.” ―Sady Doyle
by anokarina

“Cicero smiled at us. “The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight”.” ―Robert Harris, Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome 🎲
by anokarina

“They say, ‘This is some of the best food I've ever had’. It's the happiest place on earth. It's Disneyland with tits!” —Johnny Diablo Zukle
by anokarina

Minerva Temple Spring Water pool
by dksesh

“It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.” ―Lewis Carroll 🐈 🐶
by anokarina

“That sense of the pregnant body as abject goes back millennia, as the pregnant body is a woman’s body at its most fecund, but also in its most grotesque figuration: the body swells, expands, and oozes, the boundary between inside and outside permeable.”
by anokarina

“Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.” ―Anthony T. Hincks 💦
by anokarina

“Caregiving comes at a cost. Whenever there is a labor of love, there is also a labor of resentment.” —Krishnendu Ray 🌺
by anokarina

iPhone 7 Jet Black
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“But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.” ―Terry Pratchett 🚢 💦
by anokarina

“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world, is that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the masses of our century.”
by anokarina

“He went on to talk about the trouble with racially interbred societies, the genetic basis of criminality, and his belief that the South should secede.” ―Lauren Collins
by anokarina

“Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.” ―Steven Barnes 🍔 🍅
by anokarina

“You cannot step twice into the same waters, for other waters are ever flowing over you.” ―Heraclitus of Ephesus, c. 535–475 BCE 💦
by anokarina

IMG_1951
by zzkt

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” ―E.E. Cummings 🗿 ⛲️ 💦
by anokarina

“Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.” ―Baz Luhrmann 🎲
by anokarina

“Back then, everything was new to me: all the world and all the people and all the soups. My eyes were open. They haven’t closed since.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner 🌺
by anokarina

“Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here.” ―Chetan Bhagat
by anokarina