“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
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“Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.”
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“Only idiots are confident. It requires a great amount of wisdom and knowledge to be confused.”
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“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”
― On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
― On Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia"
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