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ignoring red flags because you want to “see the good in people” will cost you later

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They’re inventing a new breed of dog called everything will be ok

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i only have sex when it allows me to further engage with the text in a nuanced and complex manner

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“if you’re worried that you’re a bad person, don’t be! bad people don’t worry that they’re bad” <- seeing this a lot lately and i find it so goofy lol. it’s always a waste of time to categorize anyone as an essentially good/bad person but also like. you can be a “good” person who agonizes over their choices and still end up making choices that are careless or cowardly or even deliberately harmful. the act of worrying doesn’t absolve you of shit bro

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just googled what a 'situationship' is☹️ that sounds scary! I hope nobody is actually living like this

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miss you. would like to grab that chilled tofu we love. / miss you. would like to take a walk with you. (gabrielle calvocoressi)

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St, Martins evening, Dusseldorf - Fritz Möritz

German , 1922-1994

oil on canvas , 30.5 x 24.4 cm.

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snoopy as gregor samsa

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Cafe Interior , ‘Engineer ‘  -    Tove Jansson , 1939

Finnish, 1914-2001.

Oil on canvas 53 x 66 cm.

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When Toni Morrison said the grandeur of life is the attempt, not the solution… And how she went on to explain that it’s about behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances. The power that has, you know? It’s really just the making room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt. In the coming-to-be. 

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Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Notes on Grief