What life is about
Here we have an account of sublime experience that oscillates between feeling reduced to nothing in comparison with the great spatial and temporal expanse of nature, and then feeling elevated by two thoughts ‘that only philosophy makes clear’. First is the thought that as cognising, thinking subjects we in a sense create (support, construct) our ow
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It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
I don’t believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
– Gloria Naylor
“Being able to say ‘this is who I am’ when everything else feels uncertain, flimsy, prone to dissolution, may be the greatest comfort we have. Is anything more seductive, more empowering?/ To be alive is to subject oneself to the reality of being permeable/ so, while I welcome the pleasure of those moments when I feel like myself, I don’t think I w
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Everything has to be paid for, especially money.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
How we choose to make money, we pay for in something else…
The day passed slowly at first — warm sun on the back patio and a short call with your grandparents. They miss us so much but the truth of being together keeps us apart. When we say I miss you we mean we miss how things would be if we were all just a little better than we are. A little more forgiving, a little more flexible, a little less stuck in ... See more
Best way to explain why I live so far from my family and my homeland
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