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Sono una bella cosa la contentezza, l'assenza di dolore, le giornate tollerabili e accucciate nelle quali né il dolore né il piacere osano alzar la voce, ma tutto bisbiglia e cammina in punta di piedi.

Herman Hesse, Il Lupo della Steppa

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A volte ho questa assurda sensazione. Come se, se riuscissi a descrivermi come lo farebbe uno scrittore parlando del suo personaggio, potrei davvero trovare un equilibrio con me stessa. Consapevolezza e definizione, conoscerci è la cosa più difficile.

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spanish and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun.

french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever

german: LET'S ADD A NEUTRAL NOUN HAHA

english: *shooting up in the bathroom*

gaelic: the pronounciation changes depending on the gender and what letter the word starts and ends with and hahah i dont even know good fucking luck

polish: here have all of these consonants have fun

japanese: subject article noun article verb. too bad there's three fucking alphabets lmao hope your first language isn't western

welsh: sneeze, and chances are you've got it right. idfk

chinese: here's a picture. draw it. it means something. it can be pronounced four different ways. these twenty other pictures are pronounced the same but have very different meanings. godspeed.

arabic: so here's this one word. it actually translates to three words. also pronouns don't really exist. the gender is all in the verb. have fun!

latin: here memorize 500 charts and then you still dont know what the fuck is happening

sign language: If you move this sign by a tenth of an inch, you'll be signing "penis"

russian: idk man its pronounced like its spelt but good fucking luck spelling it

Greek: so basically we're going to add 15 syllables to every word you know and assign it one of 3 genders at random. Also good luck figuring out where to put the accents you piece of shit

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Il male di vivere è quando, a metà di una bellissima lezione di letteratura inglese, ti accorgi che stai seguendo con la professoressa sbagliata.

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quanto sto inguaiata se la notte sogno risotti al gorgonzola e parmigiane di melanzane?

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Ho perso due chili. Di capelli. Dal parrucchiere.

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Siano lodati il liquore all'amarena, il cibo cinese, gli amici cannaioli.

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Ma se a sparare all'orsa Daniza fossero stati i due marò?

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Penso di non essere mai stata arrabbiata con così tante persone contemporaneamente. Complimenti, avete vinto un orsacchiotto e un abbonamento per dieci ingressi gratuiti alla SPA di Vaffanculo.

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Sguazzino nella mediocrità, se vogliono. La gente inutile non fa per me.

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Il mio problema nelle relazioni sociali è che, se devo dire qualcosa di ovvio e/o già detto preferisco stare zitta. E poi mi viene da piangere quando mi arrabbio tanto con qualcuno quindi mi sono allenata a mantenere la calma e un'aria di nonchalance che può risultare irritante.

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Italian special force soldier after 72 hour battle in Afghanistan

School for black civil rights activists. Young girl being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face, 1960

Disability activists abandon their wheelchairs and mobility devices and crawl up the 83 stone steps of the U.S. Capitol Building demanding the passage of the American with Disability Act, March 12, 1990.

A south Korean man cries as his brother is on a train back to North Korea. Separated by the war, they have not seen the other since 1950. They were allowed to see each other for three days, but one will go back spending life in luxury, and the other in hard labour

 The Mocambo night club in East Hollywood, a white’s only club, was the most popular dance spot around but would not book Ella because she was black. Marilyn, who adored Ella Fitzgerald and her music, called the manager and demanded that they book Ella immediately

Portrait of Istvan Reiner, taken shortly before he was killed in Auschwitz

Werfel, a 6 year old orphan from Austria has just been given his first pair of new shoes by the American Red Cross,1946.

The last Jew of Vinnitsa

Susan B. Anthony in 1872 getting beaten and arrested for trying to vote when it was illegal for women to do so.

Until the mid-60s, the Aborigines came under the Flora And Fauna Act, which classified them as animals, not human beings. This also meant that killing an Aborigine meant you weren’t killing a human being, but an animal.

Here’s a link to 75 iconic pictures of the 21st century

I hope you guys learned and teared up from this as much as I did. 

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“This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.” - Don McLean (Starry, Starry Night)

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