The words the happy say
Are paltry melody
But those the silent feel
Are beautiful—
Are paltry melody
But those the silent feel
Are beautiful—
— Emily Dickinson, “1750” (via)
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I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public. They forget that invisibility is a superpower.
— Banksy (via nofatnowhip)
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the other day me and mk were driving out to camp and we saw a turtle in the road, so we stopped to get it back on the grass before cars came and smooshed it and it was a snarky snapping turtle so every time I tried to pick him up he’d thrash around and this is the personality I’d like to think he had towards us
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The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
— Robert Vallett (via skeletongarden)
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if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed
with
air.
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed
with
air.
— meditation, nayyirah waheed (via skeletongarden)
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How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.
— Charles Bukowski. (via bulimica)
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This reminds me of Miranda July’s prose and also of Amelie. It made me smile.
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It is June.
I am tired of being brave.
I am tired of being brave.
— Anne Sexton (via onsicksadworld)
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On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis, then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan. The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit.
Oh my God, yes. Let’s talk about Noor Inayat Khan.
- Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long.
- While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was “the most dangerous and important post in France”.
- She was offered a way back to Britain and refused.
- In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this.
- She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up: she made three attempt escapes. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris.
- Her last word before being shot was, “Liberté!”
The term BAMF was coined for such persons.
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