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“I could plan to do something and then find myself doing the opposite.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“The notion of my future suddenly snapped into focus: it didn't exist yet. I was making it, standing there, breathing, fixing the air around my body with stillness, trying to capture something—a thought, I guess—as though such a thing were possible, as though I believed in the delusion described in those paintings—that time could be contained, held captive.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
maria’s 2025 Year in Books
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