'people Have Always Been People' Goes For Simple Human Compassion & Humor But Only If It Also Means Understanding

'people have always been people' goes for simple human compassion & humor but only if it also means understanding that historical people have always been as complex and nuanced and innovative as they are now. their food and clothing and language and tools, particularly of ordinary people, however different than you're used to, should not be assumed to represent cultural inferiority or that those people had inferior tastes or intelligence or capacity for feeling than you do

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text id: You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

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Ada Limon said, “I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even.” and “I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.” and Anis Mojgani said, “Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”

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3 weeks ago

RETURN TO CRANFORD William Buxton

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film ohhh i remember this

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history comedic relief

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4 weeks ago

text id: Life brings no greater grief
Than happiness remembered in a time
Of sorrow.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

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3 weeks ago

sorry i can't tonight.. my spring melancholy is developing into hysteria

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finals week

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1 month ago

text id: and longingly I long and searchingly I search...

["and longingly I long…"] Sappho, tr. Dan Beachy-Quick

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3 weeks ago

text id: “I can hold in a great deal; I don’t speak
until the waters overflow their banks
and break through the dam.”
Thus, I was able to delay this book well beyond
the end of the 20th century.

"Delay", Leonard Cohen

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1 month ago

Irises in Monet's Garden | Claude Monet, 1900

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1 month ago

William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

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art there is so much going on here so much subtext

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