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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (via the-book-diaries)

Italian idiom of the day #10

Essere in una botte di ferro

“To be inside an iron barrel” – to be on safe ground, to be shielded from all harm.

When someone tells you you are “inside an iron barrel” with them, they’re trying to reassure you: it means you’ve got nothing to worry about, that you are in safe hands.

Con Marco sei in una botte di ferro: è il medico più bravo che io conosca. – Marco really is your guy: he’s the best doctor I know.

First body paragraphs: Eloquent, lovely. Unparalleled beauty in both diction and grammar. Thesis is strongly supported. Wide vocabulary. A semicolon is used. 

Last body paragraph: Short. Ugly. The crops are dying. Using the word “because” 56 times in only a few lines. Sentence structure whomst’ve? Forgot what my thesis says. In the distance, screaming

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German movies part 2

Hey guys! I noticed how many people on this website are learning German or want to learn it. It is my mother tongue and I love German cinema. We all know that movies help to improve language skills, so I made a list about my favorite German films and some must-sees! I hope you enjoy these films!

Türkisch für Anfänger (based on a famous TV series, a German girl, a Turkish boy and his sister and some weird German guy are lost on a deserted island)

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (based on the story of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof & the RAF)

Bibi Blocksberg (kids movie about the most famous German witch)

Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (German version of The Parent Trap, cutest ending ever)

Mädchen, Mädchen (3 girls that are crazy about having an orgasm, the movie is all about love, sex and orgasms)

Wo ist Fred? (a guy fakes being disabled and learns a lot about disabled people)

Die Wolke (tragic movie, a girl and her brother are desperately trying to leave the city because of a malfunction in a nuclear power plant, it’s very fxcking sad)

Vincent will Meer (moving film about a guy suffering from Tourette syndrom)

Freier Fall (a movie about 2 guys falling for each other, one of them has a wife and a child)

Rubbeldiekatz (a guy fakes being a woman so he can play in a famous movie - and he falls in love with the main actress)

Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (y’all know what this about I guess)

Feuchtgebiete (THIS MOVIE IS SO GROSS AND NSFW i don’t know any other film that is like this omg)

Der Schuh des Manitu (a classic lmao)

Barfuss bis zum Hals (literally everyone is naked at some point)

Die Apothekerin (about a pharmacist with a messed up life, a lot of ppl will die but believe me, you won’t be sad haha)

evolution of moods 1-3am

I want my nervous system to calm down first,

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh written c. May 1888 (via violentwavesofemotion)

you will be okay. please stay around long enough to see it happen

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

Sylvia Plath (via sylviaplathquotes)

The true deadly sins

Lust

Not a sin- feeling sexual attraction, sex with consenting partners, masturbation, consuming pornographic media, having several sexual partners, sex before mariage. IT’S A SIN WHEN- the person projects lust onto an unwilling recipient person and does not take into account their wants or consent. Rape, harassment, sexual assault, catcalling, dick pics.

Gluttony

Not a sin- food, enjoying food, cooking, eating sweets, eating meat. In the larger sense, accumulating material things you enjoy, like books or collectibles or whatever.  IT’S A SIN WHEN- It deprives other people of what they need.

Envy

Not a sin: Wanting things you see other people have, like money, power, fame. IT’S A SIN WHEN: This is how you define people, and stop respecting them as humans. It’s a sin when you use them for what they have and what they can bring you.

Greed

Not a sin: Wanting financial security, working hard for the things you want.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Your own financial growth depends on keeping other people impoverished and suffering.

Pride

Not a sin: Being proud of your accomplishments, liking your looks, dressing up IT’S A SIN WHEN: It stops you from accepting your faults and seeing how you can be wrong, not admitting that you can better yourself. 

Wrath

Not a sin: Righteous anger at situations, being mistreated, seeing other people suffer, at the injustice of the world. Self-defense. Revolution.  IT’S A SIN WHEN: Violence towards defenceless people, hitting your partner or your kids,.  Violence fuelled by intolerance and bigotry. 

Sloth

Not a sin: Resting. Sleeping. Taking a day or a year off. Being unproductive. Playing videogames. IT’S A SIN WHEN: You stay inactive when action is required. When people need you and you’d rather do nothing.