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Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness. The presence of another person – of any person whatsoever – instantly slows down my thinking, and while for a normal man contact with others is a stimulus to spoken expression and wit, for me it is a counterstimulus, if this compound word be linguistically permissible.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
Realising the becoming
I am able to sense that I am in the becoming. My days are starting to look quite similar to the one I have always envisioned. I feel limitless being in this knowing. Almost like its supposed to be a secret that I shouldnt be acknowledging. I still feel like I should be wanting something else? Like going for a social party
... See moreTell the Bees • The Mainstreaming of Loserdom
Shyness is the most modest, kind and unfortunate way of insisting on the specialness of one’s particular province. At the heart of the shy person’s self-doubt is a certainty that they must be boring. But, in reality, no one is ever truly boring. We are only in danger of coming across as such when we don’t dare (or know how) to communicate our
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
wallflower. He would be a really normal person. And that came from going on the Internet and finding all these blogs from middle-aged virgins—they all seemed a little scared, like it just got by them.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
“that is not an ordinary sentence, it is a slow death sentence. man is a social being. how can he retain his humanity if he isolates himself from society and social life?”
the trinity of fundamentals - wisam rafeedi