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“As an American, I’ve been inculcated with the importance of being happy – or at least pretending to be happy – at all costs.” ―Eric Weiner 🎨
by anokarina

Humour at office cafe
by dksesh

“I’ve come to believe that ‘help’ is for the most part useless and destructive,” you answered. 🎲
by anokarina

🚂 inside the belly of the beast ✈️
by anokarina

“Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words, the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds.” ―Toba Beta 💦
by anokarina

“Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.” ―Bernhard Schlink 🍳
by anokarina

May the 4th be with you ⚔️ And also with you ⚔️
by anokarina

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ―Plato's Socrates, in Phaedrus 💦
by anokarina

“...women were mere currency to be exchanged in service of proving everyone else’s humanity but their own.” ―Mayukh Sen 💎
by anokarina

“Vision is a subtractive process: The human eye sees only what’s left behind, unabsorbed.” ―Malia Wollan 💡🎨
by anokarina

“Decades later, my father will find it incomprehensible that Americans crave what in his childhood was considered repugnant fare.” ―Nayomi Munaweera 🍤
by anokarina

Under the shade
by dksesh

“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche 🍑
by anokarina

“Every time a young person declared all politics equally dirty and all governments corrupt, corruption won. The regime could just sit back and keep winning, in a self-propelling loop of triumph — because everyone else had lost this battle long ago.”
by anokarina

“Mr. Putin, please, show some fucking mercy. I mean, come on, drop a fucking bomb, won't you?” ―S•Town, Chapter V, 28 March 2017
by anokarina

“But after shuddering at the thought of accepting a cupcake from the Soldiers of Odin, I could understand how the prospect of eating food that bore the label of an enemy ideology could induce a feeling of physical disgust.” —Shakira Hussein
by anokarina

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” ―Terry Pratchett, Thud! ☕️
by anokarina

“...the public conversation is turning toward individual fulfillment as if in a desperate attempt to make us feel like we still have some control over our lives.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina

the sunbird of prey ☀️
by anokarina

“I can tell you that kindness is everywhere, not as an excuse for the hatred that courses through this country’s veins, but out of hope for the progress that is destined to replace it.” —Rahawa Haile
by anokarina

“Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.” 🍮
by anokarina

Grafitti
by VirtualWolf

“The longer you wait, though, the more you have to pretend everything’s fine, which is a fancy way of lying.” —Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
by anokarina

“Picture centering an entire piece around the premise that ‘Hey. We’re not all Hitler. #notallhitlers’. And then imagine how fucking clumsy and clueless and unstoppably White you’d need to be to not even allow that to exist as a latent implication.”
by anokarina

“The murder, being premeditated, is in the first degree but is quick and skillful, and the smoked bacon and ham provide a ceremonial ending whose fitness is seldom questioned.” ―E.B. White 🐷
by anokarina

“You can't bribe the door on your way to the sky.” ―Harry Styles, “Sign of the Times”
by anokarina

“On the path to total domination, terror is the essence of totalitarian governance.” —Roger Berkowitz
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“[Our] brains [determine] flavors based on color before [food or drink touches our] tongues.” ―Malia Wollan 🎨
by anokarina

“That Lloyd could afford not to have much of an opinion—that he simply didn’t have to think about race while making choices big and small—was a privilege he had never considered.” ―Lauren Collins 🎨
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“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.” ―Stephen Hawking 💦
by anokarina

“There is nothing much to do here. But life is so simple and natural, we have forests, goats, the church, and plenty of good food. Life would definitely be free of stress.”
by anokarina

“Trump isn’t a conventional politician. His presidency exists only because of TV, because of his fame and ratings and flair for glib spectacle.” ―Chris Jones 🎃
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“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” ―George Carlin 🍗
by anokarina

―the perfect crêpes, w jam & potatoes 🍳
by anokarina

“I Will Survive” ― @gloria.gaynor
by anokarina

“Look ahead: you have the power to shape the cultural future. Are you sure you won’t draw inspiration from others in turn?” ―Nabeelah Jaffer 🐷
by anokarina

“Open your eyes I see / Your eyes are open / Wear no disguise for me / Come into the open” ―Erasure 🐎
by anokarina

[Trumpzilla's] changeability reflects the “extraordinary adaptability and absence of continuity” that Arendt argues are the essence of the “specifically totalitarian virus.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🎲
by anokarina

Kew Bridge Station at night
by dksesh

“As part of Cameron’s changes to the welfare system, unemployment [in the U.K.] was rebranded as a psychological disorder.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina

“I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.” ―Jeri Smith-Ready 🍗
by anokarina

“Rather than railing against feminists, he convincingly argues, men should take aim at masculinity, which has sold them a bill of goods it can’t possibly deliver.” ―Sophie Gilbert 🎲
by anokarina

GO-GO TO THE WORLD 🌎
by anokarina

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.” ―Mark Twain ☁️ 🚢 🌊
by anokarina

“And I may not have realized I was marginalized until I check my reaction to the people coming here. There’s a bittersweet thing that stays bitter more than sweet.” —Akida Kissane Long
by anokarina

“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” ―Voltaire 🍕
by anokarina

“It’s a song about the desires even good girls have.” ―Slay Belle 🎨
by anokarina

“...we can achieve a meaningful existence by maintaining a positive outlook, following our bliss, and doing a few hamstring stretches as the planet burns.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
by anokarina

“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.” ―Stephen King 🍂
by anokarina

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.” ―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters 🗼
by anokarina

“Laws can go only so far, and at the crucial moment they fail us. They are a poor substitute for justice.” —Cleopatra
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―sad things found on the street 🎲 🌴
by anokarina

“The anthropologist Marcel Mauss once said that the difference between magic and religion is that people actually believe in magic.” —Moira Weigel
by anokarina

“It’s far more straightforward to line up a diverse range of guests at a fictitious barbecue than it is to implement diversity in employment practices.” —Shakira Hussein 🍓
by anokarina

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ―C.G. Jung 🎨
by anokarina

“We rise until everyone respects mother energy. Everyone with a belly button must agree.” —Alicia Keys, Women's March on Washington, 2017
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“...but this rejection implies hope — the hope that truth may be of use. And this is a more optimistic attitude than the choice of indifference, ignorance or sham.” ―Simone de Beauvoir 🌅
by anokarina

“When history holds its trial to account for the Donald Trump presidency, Trump himself will be acquitted on grounds of madness.” ―Richard Cohen 🔮 💦
by anokarina

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ―Leonardo da Vinci 🎨
by anokarina

“HOW TO GRAB A PUSSY” ―by Derek Erdman 👊
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