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Just moved to Edinburgh to study archeology. First rainy day here.

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Emily Dickinson, To March

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"Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day."

virginia woolf

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Elisabeth Modell (detail)

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take me to a place

where i‘m safe to say

i’m finally done running

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Faust, Part One,  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808)

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Is German hard

Personally, I didnt find it too bad at all! Since english is also largely germanic, there is a lot of common vocabulary, which helps! The grammer can be a bit tricky if you're not used to it, but overall I would say its a pretty easy language to learn! Good luck!

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don't get too close

i'll turn you into poetry

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Janet Fitch, from “White Oleander,” originally published c. July 1999

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Le génie du mal (The Genius of Evil), known affectionately as Lucifer of Liège.

Statue by Guillaume Geefs, installed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Liège, Belgium in 1848.

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Book recommendations?

I've been having a hard time finding new books to read lately, so I figured I would put a post up on here to see if any of my followers had some good suggestions! Maybe it will help you find something new to read as well!

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What a marvelous feeling it would be,

if we could say exactly how we felt.

What a monumental victory.

What a terrifying thought.