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Silver Lining by Eva Creel
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Max von Sydow
photographer: Hans Gedda
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running but standing still
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All the lonely people by Jakez Daniel
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A conservator’s hand manipulates this medieval volvelle currently on view at the Getty Center.
What is a volvelle? It’s part timepiece, part floppy disk, and part crystal ball. Read more on the Getty Iris.
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screaming in silence.
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Georgia O’Keeffe. 1956. by Yousuf Karsh
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Don’t think about the things you think about (by D u h e’)
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trying to figure it out.
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“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
– Jane Austen
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sleep to escape.
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via:silverfawn
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yet i can not sleep.
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via:gunmachine
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you can not change people.
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All the lonely people by Jakez Daniel
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hope.
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via:ahremdc
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the answers are there.
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“Solitude is one of our great superpowers… Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.”
-Susan Cain
the power of introverts, on WNYC’s Note to Self podcast.
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Isole Eolie 2, 2015
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just need to embrace them.
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“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Small Things In Silence by Masao Yamamoto
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“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
― Hermann Hesse
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