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Alice Pike Barney - Japanese Lullaby (ca. 1903)

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Kings of Convenience never disappoint

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can someone hire me as a lighthouse keeper. my grip on reality is soooo stable and i will behave so normally under conditions of extreme isolation. and i promise i wont try to fuck the light

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The love letter

Eugen von Blaas

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i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

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“When a wise man has wealth it is his slave. But wealth is a fool’s master. A wise man allows riches to control nothing, a fool everything.”

— Seneca, On the Happy Life

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“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Ancora, ancora, ancora

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Dale Anderson, ASID, Dale Carol Anderson Ltd., Chicago

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

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Marco Aurelio

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

- Orientalism by Edward Said

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Anthony Bourdain by Chris Floyd

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the idea that your friends won't like you if you're too weird is wrong for example one time I told a friend whenever I was losing my mind I laid down on the floor under my desk and stared at it until I was better and next time she visited me she taped a bag of salami snacks to the underside of my desk with a message saying "going insane all by yourself, handsome?" which I only saw months later when I had a breakdown. that's friendship.

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“Dry logic and elaborate arguments, though perfect in all their appointments, and though knitted together as a coat of mail, lay down the law to empty benches. But he who speaks to the feelings, who enters the soul’s deepest meditations, holding the mirror up to nature, revealing the profoundest mysteries of the human heart to the eye and ear by action and by utterance, will never want for an audience.”

— Frederick Douglass, “Lecture on Pictures (1861)”

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Currently, only 13 independent countries recognize the Taipei government, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

by @StatistaCharts