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my life is sort of like a romance novel, except there's no romance and it's mostly just me laughing at my own jokes

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[unit-02]

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Genius is non-conformity

Vladamir Nobokov, Pnin

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expect everything, you who are exiled. You are flung away, but you are not set free

Victor Hugo

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a colored spiral in a ball of glass, this is how i see my own life

Vladamir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

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Fundamental difference, when it's staring at you across the table from within the close-up face of a fellow human being, always contains an element of violation

Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation

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I've become obsessed with words. I gather them, put them away like a squirrel saving nuts for winter, swallow them and hunger for more.

Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation

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Why not leave their private sorrows to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?

Vladamir Nobovsky, Pnin

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Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a spacetraveller's helmet

Vladamir Nobovsky, Pnin

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it is the army that finally makes a citizen of you; without it you still have a chance, however slim, to remain a human being

Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One

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you got it with your mother’s milk that the majority is right

Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One

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that is the ultimate triumph of the system: whether you beat it or join it you feel equally guilty

Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One 

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Above the distant, still sadder hills there lingered, under a cloud bank, a depth of tortoise-shell sky

-Vladamir Nobovsky, Pnin

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Feminism

Feminism is women going out and making a place for themselves in the business world.

Feminism is men doing this too.

Feminism is a woman’s choice to be a stay at home mom being respected as a legitimate life choice. Feminism is a man’s choice to be a stay at home dad being respected as a legitimate life choice.

Feminism is accepting that women can be logical and men can be emotional, or that either gender can be any combination of personalty types because who you are is not defined by your genitalia. It’s understanding that your sexual orientation and gender identification have NOTHING to do with your moral standing as a decent human being, but being accepting of other’s identities in this way does. 

Feminism is acknowledging that all people are equally valuable and unique, and the things that define us are not our clothes or our professions or whom we love, but instead the joy we bring to others and the good we put into the world. It is fighting for the rights of all people, of every sexual orientation, gender identification, and cultural background to be seen as humanly, vitally important, and to be treated as such. 

This is what feminism is. It is not self-righteous outrage, or a contest to prove who’s worse-off in life. It is the stance that all humans deserve a good life, and a fight to realize that belief.

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Addict

I’m addicted to the writing 

Using up gallons of ink to say

what I would stutter to say

out loud

Blank pages are always seductive

but never quite as much

as when the seams of my soul

are teeming

With emotions pushing in opposite directions

I knew knew going home

could feel so much like 

saying good bye

And when that goodbye is layered with

IloveyouIllmissyouWhatifImsorry

Words slip pas the borders of my being 

and my hand can do nothing

but act

as a conduit

for spilling feelings onto paper

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Proving everything Harry Potter taught me true, today love won out • #lovewins #loveislove #pride