The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Present day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vaca- tion, and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor. And since our race admires gallantry, the writer will deal with it where he finds it. He finds it in the struggling poor now.
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“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.”
— Iain Thomas, from I Wrote This For You
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Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955
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Respect is looking to see, listening to hear, and learning to understand.
~ Ngambri-Ngunnawal Elder Paul House
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Once again: Absurdism differs from nihilism in that a nihilist does whatever they want because life is meaningless, whereas an absurdist does whatever they want in spite of life being meaningless.
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Christo - my Grandfather in Australia.
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Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.
Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Johnny, I will never forget you. Forever in our hearts.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of breakup and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard
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vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained
go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand
binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)
find free books on project gutenberg
download some western classics for free
borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox
start a commonplace book
take a khan academy course
browse MIT’s free online course materials
teach yourself to code
go on a google scholar essay dive
try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing
research the history of the place you where you live
tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language
search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points
print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes
improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises
learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones
start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week
clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital
check out online museums
fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed
hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x
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