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“My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self, no matter what she thinks men want her to be.” ―Channing Tatum 🎨
by anokarina

“First we computerized work, then we computerized home and social life, then we condensed and transferred that life to our pockets.” ―Ian Bogost 🎨
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“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke 🐈
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“What if sex was holy, and war was obscene?” ―Alicia Keys
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Heathrow Express at Heathrow
by dksesh

“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.” ―Red Haircrow ❄️ 🌅 🌊
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“As an American, I’ve been inculcated with the importance of being happy – or at least pretending to be happy – at all costs.” ―Eric Weiner 🎨
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Humour at office cafe
by dksesh

“...we can achieve a meaningful existence by maintaining a positive outlook, following our bliss, and doing a few hamstring stretches as the planet burns.” ―Laurie Penny
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If It Fits, I Sits 🐱
by anokarina

“I’ve come to believe that ‘help’ is for the most part useless and destructive,” you answered. 🎲
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🚂 inside the belly of the beast ✈️
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“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.” ―Tana French 🍝 🍛
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“I believe firmly that love is a transforming power that can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.” ―Martin Luther King, Jr. 🎨 💕
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“Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words, the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds.” ―Toba Beta 💦
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“Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.” ―Bernhard Schlink 🍳
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May the 4th be with you ⚔️ And also with you ⚔️
by anokarina

“...women were mere currency to be exchanged in service of proving everyone else’s humanity but their own.” ―Mayukh Sen 💎
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“Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.” ―Nayomi Munaweera 🍤
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Under the shade
by dksesh

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ―Joseph Campbell ☁️ ⛰ ☁️
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“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche 🍑
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“Every time a young person declared all politics equally dirty and all governments corrupt, corruption won. The regime could just sit back and keep winning, in a self-propelling loop of triumph — because everyone else had lost this battle long ago.”
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“Mr. Putin, please, show some fucking mercy. I mean, come on, drop a fucking bomb, won't you?” ―S•Town, Chapter V, 28 March 2017
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“But after shuddering at the thought of accepting a cupcake from the Soldiers of Odin, I could understand how the prospect of eating food that bore the label of an enemy ideology could induce a feeling of physical disgust.” —Shakira Hussein
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“That ‘nasty scar’ of a mouth was Baldwin’s only certainty: ‘a puckering butthole’, he calls it, dropping into his Trump voice to describe his vision of it.” ―Chris Jones
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“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” ―Terry Pratchett, Thud! ☕️
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“Vision is a subtractive process: The human eye sees only what’s left behind, unabsorbed.” ―Malia Wollan 💡🎨
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the sunbird of prey ☀️
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“I can tell you that kindness is everywhere, not as an excuse for the hatred that courses through this country’s veins, but out of hope for the progress that is destined to replace it.” —Rahawa Haile
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“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.” 🍮
by anokarina

Grafitti
by VirtualWolf

“It is easier for men to destroy the light within them than to resist the darkness around them.” ― “Nochnoi Dozor” / “Night Watch” [Russian Film, 2004]
by anokarina

“The longer you wait, though, the more you have to pretend everything’s fine, which is a fancy way of lying.” —Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ―Audre Lorde 🎲
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“Either you die in the world, another speck to be mourned and then forgotten, or the world dies around you.” —Sam Kriss
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“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” ―Stephen Hawking 💦
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“It was a personal thing—for so long, this place always had control over some part of how I felt. For me, it was like, ‘It’s gonna end today’.” ―Justin Bamberg 🎨
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“Trump isn’t a conventional politician. His presidency exists only because of TV, because of his fame and ratings and flair for glib spectacle.” ―Chris Jones 🎃
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“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” ―George Carlin 🍗
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“Picture centering an entire piece around the premise that ‘Hey. We’re not all Hitler. #notallhitlers’. And then imagine how fucking clumsy and clueless and unstoppably White you’d need to be to not even allow that to exist as a latent implication.”
by anokarina

―the perfect crêpes, w jam & potatoes 🍳
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“I Will Survive” ― @gloria.gaynor
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“Look ahead: you have the power to shape the cultural future. Are you sure you won’t draw inspiration from others in turn?” ―Nabeelah Jaffer 🐷
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“Open your eyes I see / Your eyes are open / Wear no disguise for me / Come into the open” ―Erasure 🐎
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“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” —Simone Weil
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ―Plato's Socrates, in Phaedrus 💦
by anokarina

November 9, 2106 ― The Election of Trump
by anokarina

Kew Bridge Station at night
by dksesh

Christmas decoration@Office cafe
by dksesh

“[Our] brains [determine] flavors based on color before [food or drink touches our] tongues.” ―Malia Wollan 🎨
by anokarina

“As part of Cameron’s changes to the welfare system, unemployment [in the U.K.] was rebranded as a psychological disorder.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
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“I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.” ―Jeri Smith-Ready 🍗
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“The murder, being premeditated, is in the first degree but is quick and skillful, and the smoked bacon and ham provide a ceremonial ending whose fitness is seldom questioned.” ―E.B. White 🐷
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GO-GO TO THE WORLD 🌎
by anokarina

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” ―Mark Twain ☁️ 🚢 🌊
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“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” ―Voltaire 🍕
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“It’s a song about the desires even good girls have.” ―Slay Belle 🎨
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“...we can achieve a meaningful existence by maintaining a positive outlook, following our bliss, and doing a few hamstring stretches as the planet burns.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.” ―Stephen King 🍂
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