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… and if you discuss her at all, let it be respectfully.

Quote from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Wordsworth Classics, pg. 24)

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After the Antique, Venus de' Medici

Karl Lagerfeld Sothebys' Estate Sale Lot 329. SOLD for 10.080 EUR

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You only lived in Belgrade for a few years but feel like you know enough to talk shit about a country on Tumblr for likes? Churchgoing in Serbia isn’t a thing, relationship with church is more of an identity thing than a belief related one. Not to mention, even if you have such a friend you made it seem like the whole country shares her views which is in itself disgusting because you are trying to fit us into that backward-Balkan-country stereotype that’s not only untrue but extremely xenophobic as well.

Additionally, Konstrakta herself explained a number of times that the song is not about Serbian health system but rather how celebrities (and following their example, normal people too) show this good look to the world which we associate with health, but in truth beneath all that makeup they might have some serious health issues noone talks about.

having lyrics addressing how mental health is just completely dismissed coupled with all that religious imagery in the staging hits incredibly hard when the cultural mindset in serbia is one of "mental illness isnt real you just need to go to church"

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Ostuni, Puglia

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“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic

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A version of it exists in Serbian too:

Кад мачке нема, мишеви коло воде / Kad mačke nema, miševi kolo vode.

It mentions no tables, but it does specify that they are dancing “kolo” (Serbian folk dance).

Når katten er borte, danser musene på bordet.

Hey we have the same saying in German!

Wenn die Katze weg ist, tanzen alle Mäuse auf dem Tisch

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some tabs have been open on my phone for literally 2 years they r like brothers to me

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Caravaggio, detalle de “Judith y Holofernes”

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The sky here as the New Year happened. Clouds scud past (4 minutes of clouds in a second.) May your troubles in 2022 pass like these clouds.

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Betty White spent last few weeks giving interviews and talking about how excited she is about turning 100 and how great she feels and that’s so terrifying about old age (or any age for that matter) - no matter how good you feel and what a wonderful person you are, you have no real control over your life. God, I just hope that she is safe and that she is resting in peace.

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Guess who finally read The Christmas Carol.

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And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

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Still Life with Cherries on a newspaper   -   Ger Gerrits

Dutch,  1893-1965

Oil on canvas,  33.5 x 48 cm.

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college is just the worst opinions you’ve ever heard being counted as participation points

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my year of neither rest nor relaxation 

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Jan Brueghel the Elder

A lavish still life of many flowers in a terracotta vase resting on a wooden ledge, flanked by a clump of cyclamen and scattered diamonds and sapphires. Signed BRVEGHEL 1605.

Private property Estimated worth: 2.500.000-3.500.000 GBP Sothebys

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Armand-Albert Rateau, Mirror, circa 1921.

Karl Lagerfeld Sothebys' Estate Sale Lot 15. SOLD for 50.400 EUR