łempicka notebook quotes/poems
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łempicka notebook quotes/poems
bell hooks said, “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
zellie imani (@zellieimani)
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James Baldwin
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
—James Baldwin
James Baldwin
“At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people... See more
Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era
Children shut down their natural desires and instincts to survive the disapproval of their caregivers.”- Psychologist Dr. Dan Siegel
you could be brilliant...but you're coward.
“The unspoken logic of suicide insists that an early death is better for the soul than slow extinction through a misery of deteriorating years.”
- Norman Mailer (about the death of Marilyn Monroe)
when bukowski said, "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"