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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

…the feeling that the comfort of intimacy was over; … …it was for the sake of what had been rather than what was. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

He can be a conversible companion if he thinks it worth his while,among those who are at all his equals..—— he is a very different man to the less prosperous. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.” -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

Oh! How heartily did she grieve—over every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

-a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the novels of the last hundred years there are vast numbers of young ladies with whom it might be a pleasure to fall in love;… -Pride & Prejudice💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“A silenced press is the first breath of tyranny. Truth is the only weapon that makes the powerful tremble.” 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes #civics

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe." -Friedrich Nietzsche💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes #jokesters #humor #satire

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

..what you ask is impossible. I don’t love you anymore. You love me still…I might tell you some other lie, but I don’t choose to.. -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Behind us lies the patriarchal system; the private house, with its nullity, its immorality, its hypocrisy, its servility.” -Three Guineas💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But she, like all women & cats, who won’t come if you call them, & do come if you don’t call them, stopped short in front of me, & spoke.. -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

‘Woman and Dog.’
Christina Malman (1935)

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There was something strange and wild about her beauty. Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it. -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

Watercolor by Prosper Mérimée of a scene from his novella "Carmen”

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“A mere savage prejudice,” said I to myself. “I shall have to answer for all the crimes this brigand may commit in the future.” -Carmen💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme

Manuel Cabral and Aguado Bejarano. Scene of a sale. 1855.
Carmen Thyssen Museum. Malaga

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In a stunning development, researchers have confirmed that the universe is composed of neutrons, protons, electrons, and morons. 💙📚 #philosophy #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #science #jokesters #humor #satire

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” -Albert Einstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #science

Photograph of the Milky Way in the night sky over Black Rock Desert, Nevada taken on 7/22/2007.

It is a 54 second exposure taken with a tripod mounted Canon EOS 5D digital camera with a 16 mm lens, wide open at f2.8 and ISO 800.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Are you mad, my friend? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own…Farewell I leave you.. -Frankenstein💙📚 #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #meme #culture

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

He is eloquent and persuasive…but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice. Hear him not… -Frankenstein💙📚 #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #philosophy #reflections #theology

Storm clouds gathering over an open field.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is indeed a tale so strange that I should fear you would not credit it were there not something in truth which, however wonderful, forces conviction. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

-my labour considerably advanced-I looked towards its completion with a tremulous & eager hope,which I dared not trust myself to question-which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil- Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed & horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species & have the same defects. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #literature #art #culture #meme

“Life is stubborn… it clings most tenaciously where it is most hated.”

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

To be a great & virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base & vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation.. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture #meme

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Devil..do you dare approach me? Begone, vile insect! Abhorred monster! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

…misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell, my sweet lady,..my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you, may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! -Frankenstein💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #literature #art #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery.. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

..now..finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart..mingled with this horror the bitterness of disappointment.. now become a hell to me.. -Frankenstein💙📚 #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #quotes #culture

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Gothic novel[a]
by Mary Shelley.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

History is a relentless cycle of stupidity: the arrogance of power, the blindness of superstition, & the refusal to learn. It proves that while ignorance is a void, certainty in the face of evidence is a weapon. 💙📚 #philosophy #criticalthinking #booksky #history #literature #art #meme #jokesters

Study History: Realize People Have Been This Stupid For Thousands of Years

Stupidity: A Powerful Force in Human History

(By an Unfortunate Witness to the Human Condition)

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery. Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example.. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Chance—or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned reluctant steps from my father’s door.. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #ethics #literature #art #culture

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. -Frankenstein 💙📚 #philosophy #reflections #books #knowledge #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #quotes #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Her hair..the brightest living gold…her blue eyes…her lips…her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness…a being heaven-sent…fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.💙📚 -Frankenstein #books #meme #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #memes #literature #art #culture

Victor departs from Elizabeth to study in Ingolstadt.
Engraving by Theodor von Holst for the 1831 edition.

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“Unhappy man! Do you share my madness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!” -Frankenstein 💙📚 #books #criticalthinking #booksky #knowledgeispower #theology #ethics #history #literature #art #culture #meme #memes

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Become well-read.Knowledge makes u harder to control,widens your perspective,strengthens your thinking,& gives you the confidence to ask questions instead of accepting whatever you’re told.You become more aware & that can threaten people who benefit from confusion,misinformation,or silence.💙📚 #meme

Shackle and chain lying across an open book.

Women dressed in long red robes with white head coverings enter voting booth, emerging from other side dressed in regular street clothes.
A reference to “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

—devils dressed in angels robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. 💙📚 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass #books #booksky #ethics #history #literature #quotes #culture #art

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which everywhere surround me. .💙📚 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass #books #booksky #ethics #history #literature #quotes #culture #art #knowledgeispower

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

..the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes,—a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds,—💙📚 Life of Frederick Douglass #books #ethics #history #literature #culture #art

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

..he relied upon his own depravity to shield & sustain him in his savage barbarity;but after his conversion,he found religious sanction & support for his slaveholding cruelty. He made the greatest pretensions to piety.💙📚 Life of Frederick Douglass #books #ethics #history #literature #culture #art

Open bible with slave holding chain and shackle

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Bruised Onion @bruisedonion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

..he sometimes deceived himself into the solemn belief,that he was a sincere worshipper of the most high God;and this,too,at a time when he may be said to have been guilty of compelling his woman slave to commit the sin of adultery.💙📚 Life of Frederick Douglass #history #literature #culture #art

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