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you tend to regard yourself as being worse off than you are (sometimes known as ‘faking bad’,
“I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide as the sun went down, ending up far, far away from where I started.”
― The Premonition
― The Premonition
“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real. That's all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“Acceptance without expectations,” and that allowed me to stay in a relationship with my mother.”
― Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
― Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life
“it was a little like living in Moomin Valley, where the sun never sets. Days that were endless, but which you could only take one at a time, with no sense of what was coming tomorrow . . . I still can’t shake it. It lives inside me like a curse or a blessing.”
― The Premonition
― The Premonition
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