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I am tired, and I am older than I think I am. Why not step down, and walk the cloisters, contemplate the world beyond this one, and the God who created it?

- Paul Kearney, Hawkwood and the Kings: The Collected Monarchies of God (Volume One)

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You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.

— homunculus-argument on Tumblr

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Near Ramallah, Palestine.

1992.

📷 Esaias BAITEL.

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Kurdistan - by Kazuyoshi Nomachi (1946), Japanese

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A Palestinian man and his daughter are seen amongst wild mustard flowers which grow in the untilled fields across the Gaza Strip on March 20, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images)

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That which was most unattainable was always most desirable.

Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders #1)

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Soft

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Man is the only true beast, because he has the capacity not to be.

- Paul Kearney, Hawkwood and the Kings: The Collected Monarchies of God (Volume One)

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But all the words he could utter in a lifetime would not make his father understand him.

Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders #1)

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It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders #1)

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Cloudography, version II - blueish. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

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Little pink houses, Christophe Jacrot

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Moonlight

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I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you look at it and say, ‘this fate does not suit me. I will not allow it to befall me.’

I have always admired people who can do that. So few do. Many, of course, will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and don it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You… you would rather go naked into the storm.

Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders #1)

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Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.

Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders #1)

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i miss when it was 2007 and i would go on the family computer go to google images type in "golden retriever puppy" hit search and scroll for a while looking at photos until i wanted to see a different breed of puppy and started over

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Installation view, Yayoi Kusama- I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, David Zwirner, New York, May 11—July 21, 2023, © YAYOI KUSAMA, Courtesy of David Zwirner.