No, perhaps
perhaps my hand would have dissolved into thin air if I had thought of tomorrow perhaps everything would have spun far too much once more had I touched your cheek perhaps I would feel not always so…
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Photo series: Print
Sometimes I want an image to work. I look at it for a while and refuse to delete it if it doesn't. The world is full of bad images and I don't want to contribute to the production of more. Our atte…
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Money on my mind
Increasingly, so-called "coaches" appear on social media such as Instagram and YouTube, showing us ordinary, wage-earning people in front of screens how to apparently build a huge fortune within ju…
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Murakami's Books
When I held a newspaper last autumn with the news about this year's Literature Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah in my hands, I also found a short article on the back of that very newspaper abou…
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Overwhelming
Curled up with knees in arms Voices crash in from all sides Sometimes it gets cold and sometimes quite warm This cannot go on forever
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Career entry under capitalist conditions
As students, we often have to grapple with what comes after our studies. In the vast majority of cases, entry into the job market proves enormously difficult for students and apprentices. We have t…
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A pressure-free, society-free beauty ideal just for you
Beauty is the spontaneity of the inspiration of being modest. In beauty lies the knowledge of the opposite. Beauty is the unadorned relevance of angular contours in a pale, to-be-filled interior. I…
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You or Me?
A clear, unambiguous appeal rings out from someone's mouth: "That's not on!"; "That's not proper!"; "You mustn't do that!". One of these three forms could well echo through the room as soon as one…
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When you dance
You run and you run And get nowhere at all. You turn and you turn And keep turning in circles. You run into walls You're constantly at the end And you ask yourself how one would find it If you forg…
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When the sky is no longer blue
If tomorrow our sky is no longer blue, then the sky has been lost to humanity. Like grass to the dealer or wood to fire. It inevitably leads to catastrophe. The sky has fallen, has come loose from…
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Perfectionism and the pursuit of perfect happiness
The source of another article is copied and added to "possible sources". Meanwhile, I have noted five websites, two YouTube videos and three books, some with over 150 pages. Whilst I research the t…
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Rain in July
It is rain in July. Not the warm summer rain that patters through the trees and pleasantly prickles on the skin. It lets one feel free and fearless, as if one were the main character in a teenage f…
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