anokarina: “It’s important to care and to try, even tho the effects of one’s caring and trying may be absurd, futile, or so woven into the future as to be indetectable.”
anokarina: “[Democracy] should be acknowledged to be impossible; for it does not belong to the majority of men to acquire virtue.” ―Cassius Dio 🎲
anokarina: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ―Martin Luther King Jr. ⛲️ 💦
anokarina: “The clearer the proof of a state’s inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status.” —Hannah Arendt
anokarina: “Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.” —Cassius Dio (c.155–235), Book XLIV
anokarina: “Movements thrive on the destruction of reality.” ―Roger Berkowitz
anokarina: “Love is just another dirty lie. / Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book.” ―Ernest Hemingway 🌸 🎲 🐦
anokarina: “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” ―Alexandre Dumas 🌸 🎲 🌺
anokarina: “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” ―Steve Jobs 🌸 🎲 🌺
anokarina: “Just believe that the heartbreak was a gift in itself! Cry if you have to, but it won't be forever! You will find love again, and it will be even more beautiful! In the meantime, enjoy all that YOU are!!!!” ―Rihanna
anokarina: [Trumpites] “are obsessed by a desire to escape from reality because in their essential homelessness they can no longer bear its accidental, incomprehensible aspects.” —Hannah Arendt
anokarina: “If you’re worried that you’re a psychopath, you’re not a psychopath — because psychopaths don’t worry.” —Eric Barker
anokarina: “I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ―Martin Luther King Jr. 🎲
anokarina: “You cannot step twice into the same waters, for other waters are ever flowing over you.” ―Heraclitus of Ephesus, c. 535–475 BCE 💦
anokarina: “What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.” —Hannah Arendt
anokarina: “A totally underrated thing about girlfriends is that they make great hostages.” —Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
anokarina: “In these times, when we have to race to keep abreast of the speed at which our freedoms are being snatched from us ... what gift can I offer you?” ―Arundhati Roy
anokarina: This is not the confirmation of self I was looking for 😂
anokarina: “To believe that my important business is more important than others’ is the path of entitlement, the antithesis of any ideal of equality.” —Rebecca Solnit 🎲
anokarina: “Never send to know for whom the grave is dug, I said to myself, it's dug for thee.” —E.B White
anokarina: “We don’t talk about the assumption much, but it’s there, humming along as background noise in every Guy Fieri show: that food is evocative of culture.”
anokarina: “[Trumpzilla’s] denial of reality is a kind of self-aggrandizing, self-empowering claim that he is powerful enough as the mouthpiece of the people to escape reality.” —Roger Berkowitz
anokarina: “When a woman is unable to achieve perfection, she’s shamed: if not by her immediate circle of friends and family, whose shaming is often cloaked in the language of ‘advice,’ then by media representations of ‘ideal pregnancy’.” ―Anne Helen Petersen
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anokarina: “It all comes back to this question of ‘Why does our society always serve the worst food to the neediest people?’” ―Daniel Patterson 🎲
anokarina: “I was having my second Frogasm of the night when dinner got weird.” ―Pete Wells 🎲
anokarina: “Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.” ―Shaun David Hutchinson 🎲
anokarina: “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” ―Emily Dickinson 🎲
anokarina: “Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it?” ―Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys Targaryen
anokarina: “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” ―Jim Rohn
anokarina: “The easiest thing in the world to sell to men who feel disenfranchised from modern life, he says, is nostalgia—a promise that the world can change to fit them rather than the other way around.” ―Sophie Gilbert