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"2.9: Theyre all just hanging out at a veranda, 11PM, during what was supposed to be a getaway…Didnt have sht to do in fuedal Russia I guess
I dont understand the prince at all, I dont think its “goodness” that makes him keep entertaining awful people. You can only let in so many people until you become a doormat" — Dec 23, 2025 06:17PM
"2.9: Theyre all just hanging out at a veranda, 11PM, during what was supposed to be a getaway…Didnt have sht to do in fuedal Russia I guess
I dont understand the prince at all, I dont think its “goodness” that makes him keep entertaining awful people. You can only let in so many people until you become a doormat" — Dec 23, 2025 06:17PM
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Loneliness is personal, and it is also political. Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any need to feel shame, only to remember that the pursuit of individual happiness does not trump or excuse our obligations to each another. We are in this together, this accumulation of scars, this world of objects, this physical and temporary heaven that so often takes on the countenance of hell. What matters is kindness; what matters is solidarity. What matters is staying alert, staying open, because if we know anything from what has gone before us, it is that the time for feeling will not last.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“The unfortunate influence of this style of reading has dictated that we go to writers of color for the gooey heart-porn of the ethnographic: to learn about forgotten history, harrowing tragedy, community-destroying political upheaval, genocide, trauma; that we expect those writers to provide those intellectual commodities the way their ancestors once provided spices, minerals, precious stones, and unprecious bodies.”
― How to Read Now
― How to Read Now
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