We can forgive a man for making a useful thing
as long as he does not admire it.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
“You ought to be sure of it. It’s important.”
thank you, Atlas Shrugged
“However, those with a more cynical bent said we should give lip service to conventional morality but should not allow it to limit our behavior”
jesus
a picture of the skeleton of a Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanii) from the side
“One time when there was a great deal of washing to do, she saw twelve boys’ shirts among the things to be washed and asked her mother, ‘Whose shirts are these? They’re much too small for father’”.
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cross-infection O_O
What if we turned into goldsmiths oh
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He was so easygoing, so uncomplicated. I’m perfectly fine with this.
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“Mother said he was quite right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion.” Ohhhhhhhhh boy.
“So well intended, and yet so insulting.” Gale whispers. well, fuck.
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As it was, they slowed you down, confused you, kept you vulnerable to violent flashes of recall, and then agitated you...
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“Why don’t we test her?”
feeling uncomfortable with...particular subject area? Well then.
“Grondant de dégoût, Rommel se débattait pour échapper à cet assaut obscène, son cou se tordait pour atteindre la gorge...
‘Go to hell,’ she said, kicking at its head, but it kept coming, its diarrhoeal mass trapping her legs. … ew. Ew. And...
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“taste or it’s satisfying crunch”… OMG MICHAEL I’M SO SORRY
‘I put a dab of jam in the center of each, lightly sifted on some powdered sugar, and covered the plate with plastic...
“A round eye blinked across a lock.” I’m scared.
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“Many people would agree that fear is one of the most powerful motivators of human behavior.”
“De mi történik, ha valaki azt mondja, neked van...legjobb segged a gólyák között?”
It became more important to me than anything else — the next sentence: The whole world started to revolve around it....
REAL SNOW uh, well it’s climate appropriate at least….
“mouth in the shape of an O and arms stretched to his sides”
“Minor teeth, jaw and gym pain/soreness is normal for the first week or two while becoming accustomed to the device.”...
“Cassowaries need a supply of fruit throughout the year, so only large forests with a good diversity of tree species...
“She said nothing until we were in bed that night,...then she was not frightened but full...
we slog back to the train in silence da fiq
“The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected that we were all three fairly...
Every Angel recruit comes to his initiation wearing a new pair of Levis...a matching...
Beatles chord book. Lol ” Now it’s past my bed, I know ” DAFUQ?