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“It is not hard to hear this music, but it is very difficult to hear it as music.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“You can die from someone else's misery - emotional states are as infectious as diseases.”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go.”
― Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula
― Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Sula
“When I looked closely,
I saw these souls stooped in much the same way.
The degree to which their bodies were bent
was in proportion to how much their backs bore.
and even he who seemed the most patient
Seemed to say, weeping, "I can bear no more.”
― Inferno
I saw these souls stooped in much the same way.
The degree to which their bodies were bent
was in proportion to how much their backs bore.
and even he who seemed the most patient
Seemed to say, weeping, "I can bear no more.”
― Inferno
“That's why we hold onto ideas of things that were and things we need to be: The idea of someone saves something about ourselves. And the more we hold onto those fragments of a person, those soundbite dreams that distract us from the moment, we end up with a few distilled memories that we've turned into life-sustaining hopes, and we piece it all together and place it on the shoulders of the person who we thought loved us enough to make us love ourselves.”
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