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This is crucial to a lasting relationship
The book is very beautiful.I took the part I liked in the book and shared it.
And as humans we never realise how much we crave serenity, sometimes in serenity itself and often in chaos too.
I had never met a soul, who could speak my language. Until there was you. You, are fluent in me.
getting back to calligraphy after quiet a long while
✩☾⋆⁺₊🎧✩°.•.¸♡𝒮𝒽ℴ𝓉 𝑔𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈 ℴ𝒻 𝓉ℯ𝒶𝓇𝓈 ♡¸.• ｡‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾ 0:31 ———♡——— 2:47 ◁◁ ▐ ▌ ▷▷
Life is like reading. Every time we finish a book and bid farewell to the characters, we may feel intense sorrow and emptiness. Isn't it the same in life? When someone leaves, it's just us finishing the chapters and books they were in. We may feel like they were the best characters ever but we don't know what the new books will have in store for us. We might meet a few better characters, which in my experience has always been the case.
From the moment I met you, my life was all you You’re the star that turns ordinaries into extraordinaries One after another, everything is special The things you’re interested in, the way you walk or talk, and every little trivial habit of yours
-Suga, Boy with Luv
“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
— Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (via anditslove)
“The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to “the serious.” One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious”
— Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp
Do you fall in love often?" "Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
Jeanette Winterson, from Gut Symmetries (via lifeinpoetry)
I can’t translate myself into language any more.
Alice Notley, from “Ruby Goes to Pieces,” Culture of One (via lifeinpoetry)
“In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find – if it’s a good novel – that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, foreword to The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” ― Theodore Dalrymple
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” ― Theodore Dalrymple
"Everyone says that kids these days are terrible. Why though? The truth is, kids are still the same. Parents are the ones who change."
- My accountant professor
As you dive deeper into the chosen fate of your career, I hope you find the unexpected happiness and blessings in every step you take. ✨
I won’t understand why people would bully other people for dressing alt or anything like that. Like, just admit you’re jealous that your outfit isn’t as cool or interesting; nobody is going to care. It’s fine. And if you wanted to, start trying to dress the same. You can be cool too
(Generative) AI is like a brain-melting parasite that sucks the life out of its hosts’ ideas and creativity and moves on when stuffed, carrying the last of its meal on it as it feasts on other unwilling people. Also like how bees do with pollen and nectar, but in a less beautiful way.
(If that makes sense-)