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Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight than ever before The clock moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to catastrophe since its debut 80 years ago.

#DoomsdayClock
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'There's no other poem like it': Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece On Burns Night this Sunday – and 235 years after Tam O'Shanter was published in 1791 – Scots everywhere may well be treated to a masterwork with a unique, universal appeal.

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The Monster under your bed is real.

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

We met a thousand dreams ago.
I remember you.

(2)
"No promises to keep."
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
#BookSky

I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the Earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. (1)

"That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image."
#BookSky
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.
(I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.)
― A. Rimbaud

#Photography Roy Keith

The cat comes into the room.
I put the cat out.
The cat comes in again.
― Robert Frost, ‘The Cat’
#Poetry
#Sculpture Alberto Giacometti, 'The Cat'.

You need to calm down. Clearly, you haven't read the Spanish translations. I based my interpretations on the French translation.

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
#BookSky

You must write that novel.

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty
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“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

You need to read the book yourself. It took you 3 hours to check a simple quote (not so simple), and then you come back insulting me. You know what? We should unfollow each other.

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#Music Max Richter
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Debating with monolingual people is difficult.

The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

#Art Hermann Glöckner (1933), Folded Strips in Red White on Black.

That's the true, true.