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Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "Three Women,"

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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

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Just got the coolest red mug ever

#books #mug #coffee #Saturday

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Doesn’t even look pink. Happy birthday to you, kiddo!

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Sarah Rehfeldt, from "Lull"

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I’m officially 27 now

#birthday #5th of february #aquarius

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sunday on the sofa ☕️

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God, im in pain (read: period cramps)

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Kamila Mraz

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Winter mornings at home: soft light, coffee, the faint sound of bells from the church, cyclists ticking by, a few more minutes in bed with a book

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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

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Happy new year, happy new year, happy new year!

Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

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me trying not to let the shit break me

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It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Oh my baby

#13 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

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Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron NORMAL PEOPLE (2020) | EPISODE 11

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what would happen to me now?

the decision i decided a month ago

the reality next month

what would i do then?

perhaps, things would get their way out

that God has written everything

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{Mass media and social networks} urge us to admire all the innovations rushing toward us like surfers on the crest of a powerful wave. But historians and anthropologists remind us that in the water's depths, changes are gradual. Víctor Lapuente Giné has written that modern society suffers from a clearly future-oriented bias. When we compare something old and something new — like a book and an iPad or a nun sitting next to a texting teenager on a train — we believe that the new thing has more of a future, when in fact the reverse is true. The longer an object or custom has been with us, the greater its staying power. On average, the newest things die out first. It's more likely that nuns and books will exist in the twenty-second century than WhatsApp and tablet computers. There will be tables and chairs in the future, but maybe not plasma screens or cell phones. We'll be celebrating the winter solstice long after we stop using tanning beds. An invention as ancient as money has a strong chance of outlasting 3D cinema, drones, and electric cars. Many trends that seem irrevocable — from rampant consumerism to social networks — will subside. And old traditions that have been with us since time immemorial — from music to spiritual exploration — will never disappear. In fact, when we visit the world's most socioeconomically advanced countries, what's surprising is their fondness for archaisms — from monarchy, protocol, and social rituals to neoclassical architecture and outdated streetcars.

— Irene Vallejo, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World