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'the me who sets an alarm' and 'the me who has to wake up on that alarm' are two different people who will burn each other to death if came face to face

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wait. list of quotes from kafka’s letter to his father that killed me

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Achilles didn't fight for glory, for honor, or for the Greeks. He fought to die. He fought to die only to be reunited with his beloved, Patroclus. And when he died, he died smiling, because he knew he'd meet him soon.

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wow! girl uses 3 hours on an assignment she could have done in 20 minutes if she didn’t have symptoms

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In "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" Ocean tells how in Vietnamese the word for missing someone and remembering someone is same...So when his mother asked if he misses her, he flinched thinking she said "Do you remember me?"

I was just sitting and thinking about my own mother tongue. In Hindi too, the word for missing and remembering is the same "याद" (Yaad) the only difference is the change of verb and sentence formation and that's how we know if the speaker is talking about missing someone or remembering someone; "मुझे तुम्हारी याद आ रही है।" (literally meaning 'Your memory/remembrance is coming to me') "मैं तुम्हे याद कर रहा हूँ।" But the sentence is always talking about remembrance. Now that I see, there is no literal translation for "I miss you" because we don't have the word for "missing" someone, all we ever do is remember them and with the memories, they are never 'missing' they are with us through that remembrance. It's like saying "I am not sad thinking about how you are not here anymore but rather I'm remembering the times you were here and I wish things were the same." It makes sense how the word "याद" also refers to 'memories'. To say "I miss you" in Hindi is to say "Now that I feel your absence, your memories are coming to me, you are coming to me, I am remembering to remember you."

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when satyajit ray said “the dirt was on my face but i kept wiping the mirror"and when he said if you keep wearing other people’s faces you won’t have yours anymore and when he said there’s a sort of insanity in choosing to define yourself with something because it Will be your downfall and when he said women are sort of enchantresses because they have to go through such an insane ordeal to simply make it out of infancy, the magic is in existing and when he said if you keep one look for yourself, the look will overtake you and when he said that faith is madness but mostly it’s protection and even when it’s fake it’s protection. and when he said faith protests alll, especially the ones giving it and when he-

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vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained

go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand

binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)

find free books on project gutenberg

download some western classics for free

borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox

start a commonplace book

take a khan academy course

browse MIT’s free online course materials

teach yourself to code

go on a google scholar essay dive

try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing

research the history of the place you where you live

tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language

search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points

print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes

improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises

learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones

start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week

clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital

check out online museums

fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed

hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x

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Rick Astley has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any cyber security company

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Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

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—do you ever tell your parent that what if you couldn't do it and all they say is “i know you will”. no mom. what if i didn't? what if i disappointed you? what about the backup? what about my guilt? where do I keep this feeling? why is it so heavy? what if i fail? what then? will you still think of me as your brightest kid? will you still use me as an example for my siblings? will i be an example? what if i couldn't be that intelligent always making you proud kid? what if i fail mom? why is this feeling so heavy? where do I keep it mom? where do I keep this courage? you've made me so hard i beg for softness

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A seemingly objectively agreed upon truth is what a profound and marked affect one of the shortest parts of the human condition—childhood—has on our lives, how so many agree that too many people spend the whole of their adulthood living in response to all that they endured in adolescence, and yet the way this world chooses to interact w children is still so thoughtless and harmful and cruel lol what the fuck

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she’s in her “just tryna graduate” era bro leave that woman alone

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we always talk about being the main character of our life, but have you seen how torturing it is to be the main character of your family who everyone literally depends on, you're always obliged to take one for the team, adjust, be the bigger person, have face to face confrontations with ridiculous problems, process information that you shouldn't have in the first place?

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we always talk about being the main character of our life, but have you seen how torturing it is to be the main character of your family who everyone literally depends on, you're always obliged to take one for the team, adjust, be the bigger person, have face to face confrontations with ridiculous problems, process information that you shouldn't have in the first place?

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the man into the archer into i think he knows !! epitome of happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time

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Taylor Swift is so unhinged for writing “hoax,” including the lines: “my eclipsed sun, this has broken me down,” “stood on the cliff side screaming ‘give me a reason’,” “my barren land, I am ash from your fire,” “your faithless love’s the only hoax I believe in,” “you knew it still hurts underneath my scars from when they pulled me apart, but what you did was just as dark,” “my broken drum, you have beaten my heart,” “don’t want no other shade of blue but you,” and being like “yeah, I actually have no idea what this is about.”

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every love story is about the struggle to say “i love you”