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“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
-Simone Weil, “Gravity&Grace”
Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away.
- Louise Glück
As Viktor Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, purpose is often born from responsibility to someone or something beyond ourselves. It is not just introspective; it is connective. He writes, “The more one forgets hinself, by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love, the more human he is.”
“Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would have come from love. Most men think that sex will provide them with a sense of being alive, connected, that sex will offer closeness, intimacy, pleasure. And more often than not sex simply does not deliver the goods. This fact does not lead men to ce
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The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Philosophy is really homesickness - an urge to be at home everywhere. (Novalis)
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw