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“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
by anokarina

“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

“...obsessive ritualization of self-care comes at the expense of collective engagement, collapsing every social problem into a personal quest for the good life.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina

“Desire” ―U2, 1988 🎭
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“You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.” ―pleasefindthis 🐱
by anokarina

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

“The greater the variety of colors consumed, the longer it takes someone to feel full.” ―Malia Wollan 🎨
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“Free elections, a free press, and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities on sale to the highest bidder.” ―Arundhati Roy 🎲
by anokarina

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

“What we do affects how we feel just as much as how we feel affects what we do.” ―George Vaillant 🗻🗻🗻
by anokarina

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

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

purple rain 💎
by anokarina

“I no longer subsist entirely on chicken nuggets, cigarettes, and spite.” ―Laurie Penny 🌳
by anokarina

“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

“Trump is a painful reminder of what America is at risk of losing, and how far high it has yet to climb.” ―David Masciotra
by anokarina

Country Life
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

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

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?” ―Stephen King 🐈 🐈
by anokarina

Christmas decoration@Bath Spa
by dksesh

A sign at Hounslow
by dksesh

“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

“That message? Again, it wasn’t to operate in totalitarian fear. More like: Sit quietly, enjoy your new bike lanes, or face a carefully randomized punishment.” ―Michael Idov 🎨
by anokarina

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

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 🎲 🌴
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“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
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“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

A WHOLE LOTTA TROUBLE RIGHT HERE 🎲
by anokarina

by VirtualWolf

the onion ring of truth 🍔 🍅
by anokarina

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

“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

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

“Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love. So the question is, what shall we love?” ―Arundhati Roy
by anokarina

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

“Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.” ―Steven Barnes 🍔 🍅
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“[Humans] argue. Nature acts.” ―Voltaire 🍹 🍻 🍸 ✈️
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“...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

Minerva Temple Spring Water pool
by dksesh

“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