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“What could he mean? She was dying to know what could be his meaning?”–and asked Elizabeth whether she could at all understand him? “Not at all,” was her answer; “but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to ask nothing about it.”

How to deal with unwelcome male opinions, according to Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

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“You learn from the part of the story you focus on.”

— Hannah Gadsby, Nanette

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Edward Hopper, 1914

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A scene from the streets of London, as afternoon fog turns day into night from an unpublished photo essay shot in 1956. (Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoEgQMpBAXW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dgbuyu2jym95

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I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life (via thewriterscaravan)

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Somewhere, Marvin Rand

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some thoughts on self objectification 

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“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”

— Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe (via wordsnquotes)

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How did some slip of a girly boy from communist East Berlin become the internationally ignored song stylist barely standing before you?

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) dir. John Cameron Mitchell

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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, 2017, Griffin Dunne

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Dosso Dossi Details

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Ninotchka (1939)

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“I didn’t choose photography; it chose me,” — German photographer Ilse Bing was born on this day in 1899. She was among the first to use solarization, the electronic flash, the 35-millimeter camera, and to take photographs at night. http://bit.ly/2I001yj

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Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Katya Zamolodchikova

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In honour of her return, here is some baby Katya back in 2010 talking about drag and gender!

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The number looms in the horizon. The dust of meaning I need to still sweep together and make sense of. (poem by Nerisa Guevara)