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“In the face of an obstacle which it is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.” - bell hooks

"The difficult road is the road of conversion, the conversion from loneliness into solitude. Instead of running away from our loneliness and trying to forget or deny it, we have to protect it and turn it into fruitful solitude. ... Loneliness is painful; solitude is peaceful.

Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to

“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” - bell hooks

“When I speak of the spiritual, I refer to the recognition within everyone that there is a place of mystery in our lives where forces that are beyond human desire or will alter circumstances and/or guide and direct us.” - bell hooks

“Packaged as a commodity, spirituality becomes no different from an exercise program.” - bell hooks

“By uprooting himself from the world, man makes himself present to the world and makes the world present to him. I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance.

But it is also by this

“Existing is so completely out of the ordinary that if we were aware of existing for more than a few seconds, we’d go mad. The solution to this absurdity called "I exist," the solution is to love another being who, this someone else, we understand does exist.” - Clarice Lispector

“What came to her was the slightly shocking certainty that our feelings and thoughts are as supernatural as a story that takes place after death.” - Clarice Lispector

“How to explain that the sea was her maternal cradle but that the smell was all masculine? Maybe it was the perfect fusion.” - Clarice Lispector