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poeticallybitter

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kendimdenhallice

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rainie-is-seasonchange

Victoria and Albert Museum.

London, England.

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why-the-heck-not

tried it out and can say for certain that fountain pens: cool

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artemisiasea

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.

berakar

artemisiasea

This is the one.

seashell-strut

Q: How do you survive whole in a world where we’re all victims of something?“

Ms. Morrison: Ummm, how do you survive whole–I can’t do this quickly, for one–how can you survive whole and when we’re victims of something, um. You know that’s a nice fat, eastern/western philosophical question about ‘how do you get through’?

Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt, it’s not about that solution.

It is about being as fearless as one can, behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It’s that, that makes it elegant. Good is more interesting. More complex, more demanding.

Evil is silly. It may be horrible but at the same time it’s not a compelling idea: it’s predictable, it needs a tuxedo, it needs blood, it needs fingernails, it’s all that costume, in order to get anybody’s attention.

But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually, if not spiritually and they certainly are spiritually. This is more fascinating job.

We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”

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honeyofapollo

Does anyone else also want to run a bookshop with an aesthetic stationery section, and café? Imagine hosting book clubs with special author visits, having poetry and play readings in the evenings, and having journaling hours like happy hour with free stationery, and of course writing workshops on the weekends. A literal dream.

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museeofmoon

𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚,1 𝒇𝒆𝒃 • Just turned in my first exam and I'm relieved to say it went well, I really want to relax a bit now but there are still so many things I have to work on (TT) here's some glances from my weeklies ft some supper puffy clouds and my failed attempt to make some flowers :')

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apoherm-deactivated20231020

ig: herdrafts I’ve been reading so many ebooks during the lockdown that I’m almost get accustomed to them, despite I miss the feeling of printing papers under my fingertips. I often read in English because it appeal to me better but often I struggle when it comes to approach a book; regardless of genre, choosing what language you want to read, it has a great influence on the reading itself and perhaps on the outcome of the review. Translation sometimes can be better than the original version, maybe when you can’t enjoy the author’s writing you can read the same novel ‘touched’ by the translator work, but you can’t really understand the meaning of the prose or the difference of styles between an author to another, if you are interested in this aspect as well. In short, this was my ranting because often I can’t decide in what language to read.

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