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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness

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How generous I am, I'm still forgiving my heart, even though it has betrayed and destroyed me in worst possible ways.

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things to do alone

read that novel you’ve always wanted to start reading

watch a movie, and i don’t mean watch a movie on netflix, actually go to the cinema on your own. thank me later

start a blog

take a walk

browse bookstores, even if you’re not going to buy anything (if you’ll be able to resist the temptation of buying a book). just surround yourself with literature

brew yourself some tea or coffee, whichever you prefer

listen to classical music and absorb it, don’t do anything else, just sit there and listen to it

pick up a magazine, ditch online magazines for a while, go for the print

go to a museum

explore cooking or baking

watch the sunset

take a long, warm bath

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𝕳𝖊𝖓𝖗𝖞 𝖂𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗

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Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

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today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.