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[blackswaneuroparedux]

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change.

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[valtsv]

i don't WANT to live in a society i want to live in a bookstore cafe

[galina]

This café is so calm and light

[1980vibes]

[crucifiedlovers]

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”

— Sally Rooney, Normal People

[notesandteacupstains]

hehku (noun, finnish): glow, shine

the late autumn glow, wet leaves under thick-soled boots, warm sweaters and tea

ig: notes.and.teacupstains

[vibzdibz]

Matt Champion’s voice in 1999 Wildfire. That’s it that’s the tweet.

[croathia]

Christmas time in streets of Bremen, Germany by Nico (ig: eskimo)

[jamesreads]

[wordlephd-deactivated20230215]

why are we still here? just to suffer? every day a man somewhere wakes up and decides to become a film major

[coffeeandmoorland]

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with the insatiable desire to learn. To know astronomy and geography and language and architecture; to recognize each constellation, planet, and star; to speak and understand all languages, be able to decipher ancient Greek and Latin text; to grow my understanding of how the human body works; study the differences and similarities of each religion; recognize the use for each herb and seed and sapling.

I want to better myself, not for fame or recognition or power. I just want to understand. 

[explicitcherry]

[paperandpaints]

Decided to decorate my shelf before school started and I'm happy with the look !

[intricateworlds]

City Lights Booksellers and Publishers 

San Fransisco, California | 2017

[cyan-skies]

college freshmen specific emotions

• finding a delicious ass coffee shop you can hit on your way to your 8 am. you probably won’t bc you’re a little broke and never really up on time but it’s nice to have it as an option

• getting so many new snaps and instas and numbers and knowing absolutely None of their names

• the secondhand happiness of hearing people laugh with their friends through an open dorm window

• i just paid $150 bucks so i could turn in homework capitalism is gonna catch these hands

• the peace of sitting somewhere empty that’s usually packed with students, like a huge lecture hall or a bus line during off hours

• cutting through a parking lot at 1:00 am on your way back to your dorm, bonus points for a rainy night

• Oh Fuck I’m On The Wrong Bus

• the unrestrained joy of finding The Perfect Study Spot. you know the one. you know.

[fourdrinkamy]

university is just. it's you, your laptop and your water bottle against the world

[inkskinned]

it won’t be like what you imagined. maybe you get the road trip to the beach with coffee in your hand and the radio playing, maybe you don’t. but happy shows up. it’s in a 2 AM game of jenga with your new college friends. it’s curling up for another marathon of netflix. it’s meeting the person who will be your best man at the wedding. it’s 4:45pm in the library when the girl in the study coral across from you quietly whispers “i’m going to set everything on fire” and then turns to you and asks if you wanna take a break for dinner (say yes, she’s very nice and you both need a moment away from the stress). it’s the mornings they have omelettes and in good books and in a puddle that looks cool. it’s sometimes picturesque, but more often it’s full-belly laughter at stupid things on the floor of your friend’s house while in the background someone is debating the best way to win settlers of catan. 

i know it gets dark early now and the tired is setting in and everything sort of feels blank and hazy and you want to spend ages staring at walls thinking of nothing

but happiness will find a way in. it will be small moments. look for them.