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Keep | The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte • 14 highlights
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Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for meaning and the pliancy of the possible future, of there being richer and deeper dimensions of experience than those we name in our surface impressions. In the roots of words we find a portal to the... See more
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
It sounded like a synonym for abandon.