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"Tää on jotenki vähän vaikee, en tiiä pääsenkö tähän silleen kunnolla sisälle?" — Feb 01, 2026 03:19PM
"Tää on jotenki vähän vaikee, en tiiä pääsenkö tähän silleen kunnolla sisälle?" — Feb 01, 2026 03:19PM
“It was at this time that I was reminded of the chain of support that keeps a sufferer afloat—the person at the core of a crisis needs the support of their family and best friends, while those people need support from their friends, partners, and family. Then even those people twice removed might need to talk to someone about it too. It takes a village to mend a broken heart.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“„Menschen so zu bezeichnen, wie sie bezeichnet werden wollen, ist keine Frage von Höflichkeit, auch kein Symbol politischer Korrektheit oder einer progressiven Haltung – es ist einfach eine Frage des menschlichen Anstands.”
― Sprache und Sein
― Sprache und Sein
“Words define us, they explain us, and, on occasion, they serve to control or isolate us.”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
“She didn’t understand that her trajectory, what she would call her mistakes, fitted in perfectly with a whole set of logical mechanisms that were practically laid down in advance and non-negotiable. She didn’t realise that her family, her parents, her brothers and sisters, even her children, pretty much everyone in the village, had had the same problems, and what she called mistakes were, in fact, no more and no less than the perfect realisation of the normal course of things.”
― The End of Eddy
― The End of Eddy
“...I realized that the words most often used to define us were words that described our function in relation to others. Even the most benign words- maiden, wife, mother - told the world whether we were virgins or not. What was the male equivalent of maiden? I could not think of it. What was the male equivalent of Mrs., of whore, of common scold?... Which words would define me? Which would be used to judge or contain?”
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
― The Dictionary of Lost Words
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