Sopstvena

And my soul must be iron

[sopstvena]

Insist on yourself; never imitate

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

[weepingwidar]

Jannik Hösel (German, 1998) - Semele (2025)

[morphic-mythos]

The Greek for “divine possession” is enthusiasmos—enthusiasm. To be enthused or enthusiastic is to be “engodded,” to be divinely inspired.

—Stephen Fry, Mythos

[petrichorals]

“I want as much self-knowledge as I can get—let me not be deceived—but self-knowledge isn’t the goal I seek. Strength, strength is what I want. Strength not to endure, I have done that and it has made me weak—but strength to act—”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947—1963 (via provst)

[sopstvena]

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time

Anatomy of one of least studied human organs could improve outcomes for women who have pelvic surgery

"Almost 30 years after the intricate web of nerves inside the penis was plotted out, the same mapping has finally been completed for one of the least-studied organs in the human body – the clitoris."

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from her novel titled "Água Viva," originally published in 1973

[varshnarsh]

from libraryofsoph

[oncce-againn]

My alone time is for everyone’s safety

[weltenwellen]

To Be Alive Gregory Orr

[c-erudio]

Morning @c-erudio

[luxe-pauvre]

Stories bring us together, untold stories keep us apart. We are made of stories - those that have happened, those that are still happening at this moment in time and those that are shaped purely in our imagination through words, images, dreams and an endless sense of wonder about the world around us and how it works. Unvarnished truths, innermost reflections, fragments of memory, wounds unhealed. Not to be able to tell your story, to be silenced and shut out, therefore, is to be dehumanised. It strikes at your very existence; it makes you question your sanity, the validity of your version of events. It creates a profound, and existential anxiety in us. In losing our voice something in us dies.

Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

[purehoneyy]

ig: bregjeheinen

[souljoy]

to believe in myself is a religion of its own

[metamorphesque]

On Not Wanting To Live, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

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[yourfavarab-deactivated20140503]

Layla Al-Attar, Iraqi artist and painter, killed by a U.S. missile attack on Baghdad in 1993, as ordered by Bill Clinton

[wikipedial]

Mother Earth, Layla Al-Attar

[friedmagnolialeaves]

[red-lamb]

[chantssecrets]

visitor at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, an art museum in Germany.