beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
The utopia was temporary, its beauty and its small victories whittled away by the scythe of inaction.
Our Longing for Inconvenience — The New Yorker
To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the nonplussed wonder of someone who has come across a vampire and found no garlands of garlic at hand.
Joan Didion • On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue
an abundance of verbosity rather than quality, noise rather than impact.
forbes.com
The doom-scroll economy benefits from your nihilism.
Hanna Horvath • I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?
“For my daughter, so visceral was my love, so instantaneous and complete, I knew I would kill.”
Excerpt From
“Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning”
Daniel Smith
The Atlantic
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I’ve always had a taste for the lesser-known.
g.m. • How To Research Niche Ideas in Literature and Philosophy
With experience (turbocharged by claiming my professional independence) I realised, comes the gift of a certain kind of savage clarity.
Releasing The Monster Down There — Martin Weigel
love the term ‘savage clarity’
