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Olivia Laing
“Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Jacques Lacan
“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
Jacques Lacan

T.S. Eliot
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Alain de Botton
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety

James Baldwin
“He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”
James Baldwin, Another Country

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