Esmeralda Anstrauta
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Esmeralda Anstrauta
“It’s just like Freud’s theory of dreams—it’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream—the words you choose, the risks you take in externalizing your mind.”
(From Pathemata by Maggie Nelson)
“When I was in labor with my son, my birth coach kept encouraging me to notice the space between contractions—she said I needed to notice the space so that I could use it as reprieve, to gear up for the next contraction, to stay strong.
I remember thinking, there is a life lesson here, but this isn’t the moment for it.”
(From Pathemata by Maggie
... See more“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
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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”
The mere act of searching is proof that I refuse to get lost in my loss.
-Mahmoud Darwish, from “Journal of Ordinary Grief”
Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself.
-Miles Davis
