yes i use them out of context

It's been a terrible snow

[metamorphesque]

musings on the sun

christina perneta, noor hindi, vincent van gogh, jeanette winterson, zinaida vysota docenko, anne sexton, olga kos, khalil gibran

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— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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If the truth shall kill me i must die

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between Orwell saying "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood" and Dostoyevsky saying "I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself" to Meireles saying "I die from what I lived" to Mirakami saying "I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing" to Rumi saying "Blind to others I kept hearing my own name" and to Lispector finally saying "And no one is me. No one is you. This is solitude. (...) And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand" we all died a little

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— Rumi, From "Rumi's Secret"

[lilium--bosniacum]

children’s dreams / al-yarmouk, palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria 

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al khatib 

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Forget us. Forget the cars, fuck the stars, the houses, whores, the pharmacies down your block, think of our letters as suicide notes. Forget that the air touches me before it brushes right past you. Wipe us off the map, our memory, the canvases too. Know that a hole is never whole even if it's holy. Drink the river dry, hide the hammers, bake the bricks & when it's all done, forget to forget us.

— Aarish, @slumber.slums/Instagram

[on-poetry]

“It is June. I am used to being a certain kind of alone.“

“The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady & The Dead & The Truth“ by Morgan Parker, in Harper’s Magazine

[smooththegoofyshark]

The reason it’s called French Toast is absolutely ridiculous and I’m so mad rn about the story

Okay so, Basically the story is that French toast was coined in 1724, by an illiterate innkeeper in Albany New York, Who was named Joseph French

IT’S named French Toast because when Joseph FRENCH STARTED SELLING IT the sign instead of saying French’s Toast- because he was illiterate- said French Toast.

And THAT IS WHY IT’S CALLED FRENCH TOAST AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

Are you fucking kidding me

I TOLD Y'ALL IT WAS RIDICULOUS

[maxofs2d]

We call it “pain perdu” in French; “lost bread”.

[sew-birb]

This is German Chocolate Cake all over again

[sew-birb]

@captainclickycat

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But something to appreciate here is how people who society calls "illiterate" and subconsciously looks down upon, ended up creating food products that became a world hit. Mr. French and Mr. German we are proud of you.

[freelance-philosopher]

“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, ‘I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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— Nisiosin, Nekomonogatari (Black)

[soracities]

Wisława Szymborska, from “Our Century’s Decline”, View with a Grain of Sand (trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh)

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— Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah H. Whitman — October 18, 1848

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"I take out my throat / but the grief remains"

— Alessandra Lynch, Couplets

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"Dare I stoop and take power? Am I a quivering creature or do I have the right?"

Those who know this reference from Crime and Punishment are dark things

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