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“Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair. (Can a reflection be a witness? Can one pass oneself the sponge wet with vinegar from a reed?)”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting “the fundamental impermanence of all things.” This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
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