Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman.
“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Even if we didn't know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“It's a little known problem since those suffering from parasitosis or Ekbom syndrome are most likely o consult exterminators or dermatologists for their imagination infestations instead of mental health professionals”
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
― Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
“recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go. I also realize that I was a long way, still, from finding my voice.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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