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Carla Dominguez
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“Despite the urgency so many feel to capture a moment, sometimes the moment captures them and never lets them go.”
― Beneath the Fall
― Beneath the Fall
“People say that love is rare. I am not so sure. What is rare is something even more desirable. Understanding. There is no point in being loved if you are not understood. They are simply loving an idea of you they have in their mind. They are in love with love. They are in love with their loving. To be understood. And not only that, but to be understood and appreciated once understood. That is what matters.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“I wonder if you have people like that in your life, people whose love keeps you going even though they are distant now because of time and geography and everything else that comes between us. Todd and I have both floated down through the decades—he’s a doctor now—but the courses of our lives were shaped by those moments we shared upstream.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
“what people really need most of all is a prescription for a break.”
― The Answer Is No
― The Answer Is No
“I never excelled academically, and took some pride in “not fulfilling my potential,” in part because I was terrified that if I tried my hardest, the world would learn that I didn’t actually have that much potential”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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