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starting a collection #blackmold
Hope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomesโyou alone or you in concert with a few dozen or several million others. Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists. Optimists think it will be fine without our involvement; pessimists take the opposite position; both excuse themselves from acting. It's the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and what it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand.
Rebecca Solnit, from Hope in the Dark
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"If he writes her a few sonnets, he loves her. If he writes her 300 sonnets, he loves sonnets"
- my english professor
I think about this quote all the time and I feel like it explains a lot of things about human behavior
My English teacher used this post in a lesson ๐
Reblogged thetisming
Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.