Relationships

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

I think it’s beautiful how fidelity means both loyalty and level of detail. Because of course it should mean both those things. Of course.

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

You’ve been duped into thinking you can create a life without danger, one liberated from constraints and uncomfortable emotions, and that such a life is desirable. But you can’t, and it’s not. If you connect with someone and it comes with the risk of losing something, good. You’re alive!