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Jan Bruegel the Elder, Flowers in a Wooden Vessel (details), 1606-1607

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Slaves who escaped were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

Jewish people who escaped the Nazis were breaking the law. Literally. Outright.

The law is a horrible judge of morality.

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Death Comes for the Poor and the Rich (n.d.) - Unknown Artist

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Can you upload the song, world with me from Phantasy star online episode 1 & 2?

Happy Valentines Day <3

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“Path of Ruins” by Lauren K. Cannon

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Fairy Winter Woods by Heiko Gerlicher

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“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic – if it is pulled out I shall die.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Journals

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Heather McLean

The Hedge Witch

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"What people call American civilization will disappear. It is already dead because it is founded on contempt. The contempt of the rich for the poor, the contempt of whites for blacks, and so on. Every civilization founded on contempt must necessarily disappear. And I am not speaking of contempt in terms of morality, but in terms of function: I mean that contempt, as an institution, contains its own dissolving agent, and the dissolving agent of what it engenders." -Jean Genet

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“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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Patrick von Kalckreuth (German, 1892–1970)

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"What is the soul allowed to keep? Every Birth, every small gift, every ache? I know I have knelt just here, torn apart by loss." - Tracy K. Smith, from “Eternity,” published in The Awl

Art by Moonassi

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A track that was left on my piano recording storage.

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“Everyone thinks I’m showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I’m silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I’m tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should…”

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via books-n-quotes)

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no im fine im just imagining a world where advances in technology were pushed by collaboration for the betterment of the world instead of driven by competition for increasing profits

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Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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On this day in 1943, February 8, Yugoslav anti-fascist partisan Lepa Radić was executed for shooting at SS troops.

With the noose around her neck, she cried out: “Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!”

In her last moments at the scaffold, the Germans offered to spare her life, in return for the names of the Communist Party leaders and other partisans, but she refused their offer with the words: “I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.”

Lepa Radić was only 17 years old when she was publicly executed.