Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

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Eternal order is prescribed by the sacred engine: all things flow from the sacred engine, all things in their place, all passengers in their section, all water flowing. all heat rising, pays homage to the sacred engine, in its own particular preordained position. So it is.

SNOWPIERCER (2013), dir. Bong Joon-ho

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badjokesbyjeff

Student: Can I borrow a pencil?

Teacher: I don’t know, can you borrow a pencil?

Student: Aha, but I clearly meant to ask for permission. Since you and the rest of the class understood my intent perfectly well, and the word “may” to show permission is rapidly falling out of fashion, there is nothing wrong with asking you whether I can borrow a pencil.

Teacher: Possibly so, in colloquial speech. Discerning context can help us decipher the nuance of each sentence on a case-by-case basis. However, as your teacher, my task is to teach you the intricacies and nuances of the English language with rigor, so that you may have a greater mastery of the language in order to effectively and precisely control what you want to communicate. In this case, the difference between the words “can” and “may”.

Student: Point taken. May I borrow a pencil?

Teacher: No, you may not. The state cut funding for education again.

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bladesrunner

This is Snowpiercer. Around and around the Earth we circle. We can never stop. These are our revolutions, 1,001 cars long.

SNOWPIERCER 2020 | 1.01 First, the Weather Changed

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netals

Snowpiercer (2013) dir. Bong Joon-ho

Source: netals

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sheryl-lee

Everyone has their own preordained position, and everyone is in their place except you. That’s what people in the best place say to the people in the worst place.

SNOWPIERCER (2013) dir. Bong Joon-ho

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earlymoderngothic

flipphonegoth

its my god given bisexual right to be dramatic

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wulfhalls

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) DIR. MARTIN SCORSESE

You couldn’t be happy if it meant being cruel. If we act any other way I’ll be making you act against what I love in you most. And I can’t go back to that way of thinking. Don’t you see? I can’t love you unless I give you up.

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queermystic

cheese-greater-official

*cough gay cough*

*cue vine voice* Oh my god, they were roommates...

cheese-greater-official

Cary grant and Randolph Scott lived together for 11 years in their mansion entitled the bachelor pad there are press pictures of the two of them living in a completely wonderfully domestic setting