Gnoti seauton

— Noam Chomsky (via thoughtkick)

The French Dispatch (2021) dir. Wes Anderson

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

turkish: “Once there was, and once there wasn’t. In the long-distant days of yore, when haystacks winnowed sieves, when genies played jereed in the old bathhouse, [when] fleas were barbers, [when] camels were town criers, [and when] I softly rocked my baby grandmother to sleep in her creaking cradle, there was/lived, in an exotic land, far, far away, a/an…* (Bir varmış, bir yokmuş. Evvel zaman içinde, kalbur saman içinde, cinler cirit oynar iken eski hamam içinde, pireler berber [iken], develer tellal [iken], ben ninemin beşiğini tıngır mıngır sallar iken, uzak diyarların birinde…)

[ID: "June 1. Wrote nothing." End ID]

— Zadie Smith

Etymology of ‘vernacular’ (via etymonline.com)

“Listen: this world is the lunatic’s sphere, don’t always agree it’s real, even with my feet upon it and the postman knowing my door, my address is somewhere else.” -Hafez • Glacier Breeze, Passu. (Instagram: aabbiidd)

must be built anew

– Michael Boiano