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a girl who reads can't love easily. she's just looking for her spiritual double, similar to her details.

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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What‘s the answer to all your problems?

Coffee, my dear. Coffee and a book!

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Goncharov (1973)

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Everyone talks about an inner child. I have an inner older lady who says inappropriate things, judges everyone and wants to be in bed by 8pm.

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I think he's very lonely. Lonelier than he lets on. Maybe lonelier than he even realizes.

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not enough eerie girls out there these days. eerie girls rise

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Charles Baudelaire, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "Ruin,"

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musings on november

Donald Miller, Holly Warburton, L. M. Montgomery, E. M. Forster, Anne Sexton, Kaye Donachie, Anne Sexton, Emilio Hernandez Martin, Maggie Stiefvater, Nina MacLaughlin (The Paris Review)

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Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Her father, the renowned novelist Han Seung-won, 85, conveyed her message during a press conference at the Han Seung-won Literary School in Jangheung, South Jeolla Province. "(Han Kang) told me, 'With the war intensifying and people being carried out dead every day, how can we have a celebration or a press conference?' She said she won’t hold a press conference," he said.

What Han Kang has done is a radical reminder that art cannot and should not exist in a vacuum, especially when the world around it is burning.

In a time when the entertainment industry mass-produces content to meet an endless appetite for meaningless distraction, we risk losing sight of art’s traditional role as a catalyst for reflection, resistance and revolution. Be it in literature, music or visual art, the most powerful works often emerge not from periods of peace and stability, but from times of unrest and conflict. They confront uncomfortable truths, challenge power structures and push audiences to think critically about the world they live in. As I have said many times before, art isn’t simply entertainment—it’s a mirror held up to society, and at times, a weapon against injustice.

The truth is, many entertainers may fear "disappointing" their audiences, losing sponsorship deals or damaging their "reputation" by taking such "strong" stances. But Han Kang’s gesture is proof that true art requires sacrifice, and sometimes, that sacrifice means choosing silence over celebration, message over money.

Han Kang’s decision shows everyone the power of refusal and the potential impact when art refuses to entertain at the expense of turning a blind eye to suffering. It is a call and, dare I say, a challenge to the wider artistic community to consider the weight of their influence and the moral imperative to use it for good.

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𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔭𝔞𝔤𝔢𝔰

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#i am a bloody vampire

please be patient with me im from the 1900s

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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.

Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

- W H Auden, Funeral Blues

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“genocide” lol. We’re defending ourselves, dude.

"Defending yourselves"? From what—innocent civilians, children, women, families who are trapped with no way out? Who do you think you’re fooling? If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t be "lol"-ing around while my country drenches itself in the blood of the defenseless. I'd be doing everything in my power to counteract this madness before the shame of these atrocities clings to my nation for generations. Your people will carry the weight, the shame and the sin of this destruction for hundreds of years to come. This isn’t defense; it’s a legacy of cruelty, and deep down you know it. You should be outraged, not complicit.