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Mio

📜 a forager and collector of words and all things fervent & divine | art, language, literature 🐾 I look after and live with 8 cats. 🍵 I use a translator to understand Japanese.

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💌 snoopy plushie from a friend

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sometimes, when he reads, he falls asleep.

✨😴🐈✨

#猫のいる生活 #読書

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"because this is my first life (이번 생은 처음이라)" dir. park joon-hwa 박준화 (2017)

This Life

Moon Sung Nam

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"read, read, read. that's all i can say."
— carolyn keene, from "nancy drew mystery stories" (1930-2003)

📚 the entire series was one of those i would have and could have read all day as a kid; such little treasures.

#読書 #books #literature

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"i looked into my heart for the first time in a long time, and i saw a door to something."

photographs from etsy; straycatj

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"now, we all have a great need for acceptance.
but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own.
even though others may think them odd or unpopular.
even though the herd may go, 'that's baaaaad'
robert frost said, 'two roads diverged in a road, and i, i took the one less travelled by, and that had made all the difference.'"
— dead poets society dir. peter weir (1989)

#film #stills

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📚 today's [re]reading: charlotte brontë, "jane eyre," 1847

"i am no bird; and no net ensnares me; i am a free human being, with an independent will; which i now exert to leave you."
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"i care for myself. the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained i am, the more i will respect myself."

photograph of a rather self-absorbed yet sweet feline by ig: fortuneismycat

#読書 #victorianlit

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Strawberries & Cigarettes

Troye Sivan

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— beginners (2010) dir. mike mills

#film #stills

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"what greater gift than the love of a cat?"
— charles dickens

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vladimir nabokov (1899-1977)

🦋 exhibit a: butterflies from nabokov's collection at the nabokov museum in st. petersburg

📜 exhibit b: vladimir nabokov, "letters to véra," 1924

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— "before sunrise" dir. richard linklater (1995)

#filmstills

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浮気されたら相手を許せる？その理由は？

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no, I won't. should my theoretical partner have done that, i'm out of there, mate!

a mystical thread connecting the both of you woven through the meandering road of mutual exploration, faith, and trust—ravaged, unravelled and desecrated: the memory of this irreverence & mockery of the one thing that sustains one of the purposes of living & thriving, etched on the palm of my hand, running through my veins into the deepest of my heart and the most delicate of my cerebral space—

i do not forgive, i do not forget: if they can do it once, they can and will do it again. it is an act of insolence so banal that deserves no absolution and utterly defeats any and all possibilities of reconciliation, let alone a restoration of what once was or the prospect of what will ever be.

you either love someone or you don't. that is all.

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"you don't have to be a prodigy to be unique
you don't have to know what to say or what to think
you don't have to be anybody you can never be
that's all right, let it out, talk to me"
— cavetown, "talk to me" (2018)

Talk to Me

Cavetown

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"Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?"
— R.F. Kuang, "Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

#読書

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"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.

And medicine, law, business, engineering—these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love—these are what we stay alive for.

To quote from Whitman,
"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?"

Answer. That you are here—that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse.
What will your verse be?

📜 dead poets society, dir. peter weir (1989)

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"The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought assiduously to eliminate himself."
— Epigraph to Leon Edel, "Henry James: The Middle Years, 1884-94" (1963)

#読書

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Right Before My Eyes

Cage The Elephant

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どんな人といると楽しいですか?

どんな人といると楽しいですか?

those that I can have lengthy, deep, and intellectual conversations with; those that can accept how odd and different I can be; those who know not only to speak, but to listen; those who have a sense of wonder and a wild interest in understanding oneself; those that can find anything funny and are bright, honest, and a little peculiar at times.

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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Letters of a Young Poet" (1929)

📚 Bodleian Duke Humfrey Library, Oxford

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"Of course it is in your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
— J.K. Rowling, "The Deathly Hallows"

📚 This has always been one of my favourite quotes from the series. It truly resonates. We deeply admire the books, albeit not the author of them.

#読書

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恋愛相手を選ぶときに顔の良さと趣味が合うこと、どっちが大事だと思う？

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naturally, both do—and likely should—matter. everyone's preferences on things may be categorised either by intuition or social influences: physical attraction may or may not come with time, but generally, it does exist in conjuction with the emotional and psychological realm. it would be fair to say that either physical or romantic attraction may come first, but would significantly matter less than both of your capacities to acknowledge and consider each other, knowing that to a greater degree, how your goals and values align statistically becomes the hallmark of how healthy your relationship would become and eventually foresees the probability of a shared future.

in sum: looks may or may not matter, but when you are all about commitment, a relationship with a person who does not fill a void in you, but connects and pairs with you like a puzzle piece is far more rewarding than a relationship that is primarily rooted in physical attraction, which may fade or cease to exist in time.

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"she's the memory i recall
and she's waiting in the hall
she's the monster in the fridge
she's chewing cotton wool"

#音楽

Chewing Cotton Wool

The Japanese House

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fast asleep 😴🐱

#猫のいる生活

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なぜ生きていますか。

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i hold on to life, so my cats will never have to wonder why i didn't come home.

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"last year I abstained
this year I devour

without guilt
which is also an art"

— margaret atwood, from "you are happy" (1974)

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"I'm OOHYO.
Youth turns out to be far less exciting and far more unstable than we expect.
When we realise the weight of our lives, the weakness within ourselves, we feel small and suffer.
There is something important about these difficulties, and that is for whom we overcome them.
Recently I began to strive for youth with an open mind, not getting trapped inside my own self, rather than youth dedicated to worrying about what's to come and planning only for my future.
I hope the young people, including myself, get to make the time on our hands most interesting and meaningful, and stop obsessing over how hurt we have been in the past, how different we are from others at the moment, and how successful we push ourselves to become in the future."

— OOHYO, "Youth (Night version)"

Youth (NIGHT)

OOHYO

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"how strange it is to be anything at all."
— neutral milk hotel, "in the aeroplane over the sea" (1998)

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

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私の事好きですか？

i'm quite sure that i will find a reason to!

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自分を落ち着かせる方法は？

you take a walk—you allow yourself to be engulfed by the absolute truth of impermanence through the observation of nature and how it fluctuates from one state to another, regardless of age and time. there is beauty in change. there is as much wonder in the falling of the leaves as there is in the sprouting of a seed. you revel in the subtleties of nature and realise that though you might be a speck in the universe, you are also one with it.

whilst you're on this path, you let your thoughts & emotions run its course, understanding that though it may be unbeknownst to you, underneath all that muck is pure & unadulterated insight into who you really are, how you feel, and what matters to you.

then, you let yourself be loved. for it is in the company of the people who love you that you will find not simply a sense of calm, but recovery & healing.

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ボクじゃない

The Black Skirts

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books, cats, a comfortable space, & perhaps a consuming kind of love—when i have these, i'll have everything i'll ever need.
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"i kneel into a dream where i am good & loved. i am good. i am loved."
—natalie wee, from "least of all," our bodies & other fine machines