There’s an incredible amount of truth to this - it’s why I think things like roleplaying games have some importance.

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rondloper:

i don’t think there is anything more detrimental to the human mind than isolation

"What, after all, does education offer to people if not a greater sense of being human?"

Alan Smith

In prison, education is a route to self-respect | Education | The Guardian

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (via perfect)

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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E. Cummings (via anarchyagogo)

Don’t know how much I agree, but I’ll say this: we do need more independent voices, desperately.

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quotevadis:

“Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?”

— Unknown

Asking. Answered. Working to be that person.

You know what though? It’s almost impossible to be who you want to be alone. Even monks live in a community; hermits appeal directly to God.

(via thatgirlwasmeanttofly)

"Merry Christmas from America’s #1 imaginary gay Christian Filipino baseball player Trekkie boyfriend blog."

Baseball 2.0: Lessons From An Imagined Romance: It’s 2:30pm PT on December 25, 2012.

Only sarka could make a holiday greeting this quotable.

Reading is social - whether one likes it or not.

toniiu:

Not to wish to see too soon.— As long as one lives through an experience, one must surrender to the experience and shut one’s eyes instead of becoming an observer immediately. For that would disturb the good digestion of the experience: instead of wisdom, one would acquire indigestion.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims

http://toniiu.tumblr.com is reading Nietzsche at the moment!

More on Nietzsche - a cryptic comment on a cryptic aphorism: “Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”

"Maybe being powerful means to be fragile."

Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (via amouremeline)

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"At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart."

Jonathan Franzen (via girlinlondon)

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