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“As intelligent AS YOU LIKE TO THINK YOU ARE” oh I KNEW he was an asshole

Now kiss

“Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance.”

It’s giving that fake Ben Shapiro tweet “If you need any proof that American masculinity is under attack, just go and see a marriage counselor and watch how quickly the conversation devolves into a bunch of nonsense regarding the so-called "sexual needs" of your wife”

Wait why’s he lowkey an asshole too. Why are all men awful

far street lights, and the voices moved on into the coming years…

Oh, the luxury of lying in the fern night and the grass night and the night of susurrant, slumbrous voices weaving the dark together. The grownups had forgotten he was there, so still, so quiet Douglas lay, noting the plans they were making for his and their own futures. And the voices chanted, drifted, in moonlit clouds of cigarette smoke while the moths, like late appleblossoms come alive, tapped faintly about the

"I'm alive."
"Heck, that's old!"
"Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

They all want what the other has ig

We should all kill this guy😍

….what.

Urban cliff hypothesis

“Isn’t this the way we love? The way love propels our own unfolding? We are shaped by our affinity for love. Expanded by its presence, and shrunken by its lack.”

“With our big brains, we are at least aware of the limits of our vision. With a degree of humility rare in our species we acknowledge there is much we can’t see. And so contrive remarkable ways to observe the world.”

AO3 MENTIONED‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

Feeling like the hobo ant picture after having the thought “why are the feminist ideas of the college women lowkey a little outdated” and then realizing that early-mid 2010s is, in fact, outdated. Did not realize the true extent of “Thot culture” and the absolute evil of frat boys back then Free my sisters from this prison✊😔✊

Just that,” said the Fox. “To me, you are stil nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

"that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself."

Baby’s first exposure to empathy 🫶🫶

"I myself own a flower," he continued his conversation with the businessman, "which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which 1 clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows). It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars ."

Baby’s first anti-capitalist sentiment🫶🫶🫶

"One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform," the king went on. "Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable."

🫶🫶Baby’s first exposure to democracy!🫶🫶

If things are a bit bad, it's probably because we're doing it right.

in order to help us make our peace with the only thing that is actually on offer: a radically imperfect but genuine love for another flawed person and a necessarily troubled but still valuable shared life.

The real skill is not always to strive to make better choices; it's to know how to make our peace with our necessarily bad choices. We keep on supposing that our lives would turn out well if only we could somehow make an ideal right decision. But Kierkegaard is firmly opposed to this naive error. We should with cheer accept that we never had ideal options in the first place.