Delicious phrases
I looked into the open mouth of the volcano taunting the sky in the language of time.
The Weekender: Synesthesia, the art of breakfast, and Megalopolis
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For me it has been less a building and more a ritual: prayer beads, mantras, a worry stone.
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Soares himself is privy to the largest literary ambition there is “to feel everything in every way”.
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Explosive Elasticity of the Self
Maria Popova • 15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
the belief that divinity is to be found not in some outside deity, but in the human soul itself, in its fidelity to itself as a fractal of nature, a particle of the perfect totality of the universe, which Margaret Fuller — Emerson’s greatest influence — called “the All.”
Maria Popova • Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
mahpiohanzia n. the disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the ballast of your own weight and ignited the fuel tank of unfulfilled desires you've been storing up since before you were born.
onism n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only
... See moreDespite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.
Maria Popova • The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
“My soul is a hidden orchestra,” the first entry reads. “I do not know what instruments, what violins and harps, drums and tambours sound and clash inside me. I know myself only as a symphony.”