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Jenny Holzer, It's Hard To Know...

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me every day cause I don’t understand anything

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i hate to say it but in some cases the beautiful and creative adaptation has ruined the source material a bit for me

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if tumblr goes down you won't find me anywhere else. luckily tumblr will last forever and i will never die

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Edward Hopper (1882-1967), New York Movie, 1939.

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‘Aja’ib al-Makhluqat wa Ghara’ib al-Mawjudat (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence)’ by Zakaria bin Muhammad bin Mahmud Abu Yahya Qazwini (1203–83 AD).

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Hello, where have you been, man or woman? I wanted to tell you that you are now reading this post, either at work, on your break, or with your family, having a good time. I don’t know, but what I want you to know is that I am now writing this post after I was (forced) to flee. Focus on my words. I was forced, under the intensity of the aerial and artillery bombardment, to flee from my home to another place. Why? (Just to search for safety). Imagine, just to stay safe. This will not end here, and I am also suffering from a lack of food and water. This is our life. It is truly difficult. What I am going through cannot be described, but rather lived. I mean in my words that no matter how much I write, say, document, or take videos and photos, it will not be enough to describe our situation. Therefore, my friend, I ask you to donate to me if you can, and if you cannot, and I truly appreciate everyone’s circumstances, just share. Maybe someone else who has the ability to donate will see this post and donate, so please donate.

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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Various coquina shells. Individuals in the mollusk species Donax variabilis show diverse coloration and patterning in their phenotypes. by Debivort

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Photos by Ernest Shackleton, taken from the balloon "Eva" in 1902.

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during summer the oaks wear wild grapes like a veil. what's not captured is the thousands of little tufts of fluff slowly floating down from the fremont cottonwoods like fairies

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Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”

By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.