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I just realised that the rest of the world doesn’t know about one of my favourite New Year’s Eve in Germany things:
Angela Merkel getting out her shiny blazers for her speech.
They’re only for New Year’s Eve. The shiny Merkel is very rare and can only be spotted on the 31st of December.
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“He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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“She liked to be alone; she liked to be herself;”
— Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse
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“sweet and soft as summer, darlings, maple trees in bloom and grass green in the sunny places—”
peter s. kroyer // willard metcalf // daniel garber // emily dickinson, in a letter to susan gilbert
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“Ich bin mein Himmel und meine Hölle.”
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I am my own heaven and my own hell.
Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805), German poet and writer
(via thatswhywelovegermany)
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Parco Durazzo Pallavincini, built between 1840-1846 in Pegli, a town to the west of Genoa, Italy.
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look not to spoil the ending but you’re going to recover and be happy
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