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the art of camel barbering

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Portrait of Kafka, Vitalis Verlag; Original manuscript of The Trial, The Kafka Project

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. That is my belief.”

“Ich glaube, man sollte überhaupt nur solche Bücher lesen, die einen beißen und stechen. Wenn das Buch, das wir lesen, uns nicht mit einem Faustschlag auf den Schädel weckt, wozu lesen wir dann das Buch? Damit es uns glücklich macht, wie Du schreibst? Mein Gott, glücklich wären wir eben auch, wenn wir keine Bücher hätten, und solche Bücher, die uns glücklich machen, könnten wir zur Not selber schreiben. Wir brauchen aber die Bücher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Unglück, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wir lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Wälder verstoßen würden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. Das glaube ich.” 

Franz Kafka (born on this day, 3 July 1883) in his letter to Oskar Pollak, January 1904, featured in Letters to Friends, Family and Editors (translated by Richard and Clara Winston)

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A hibiscus flower under ultraviolet light, shining for the polinators.

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Photo from The Jews of Yemen: The Last Generation, in which renowned photographer Zion Ozeri – himself a Yemenite Jew – has brought together more than 20 years of photographs of Yemenite Jews, in both Israel and Yemen. 

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1. People of Sasun, 1980-1985.

2. Grandmother from Zangezur, 1980.

By Viktor Adyan, Sovetakan Hayastan journal.

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heading toward the ancient armenian city of Ani - april 2014 (9/??)

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your daughter is a pleasure to have on the dashboard

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headline from the nature briefing today / Map of the World, seperis

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I think it would be incredibly emotionally fulfilling to hit someone in the back of the head really hard with a shovel

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Mustang foal lying in wildflowers by D. Robert Franz. Montana or Wyoming. x

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this is one of the more favourable photo's i've ever taken

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(never degraded someone before) you have your mother's cruelty. and your father's cowardice.

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You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

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today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern today I’m going to break the pattern

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there’s a bambi in my coffee…🥹