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Haruki Murakami
“Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.” The”
Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women

Olivia Laing
“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.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Olivia Laing
“It seems funny to think that healing or coming to terms with loneliness and loss, or with the damage accrued in scenes of closeness, the inevitable wounds that occur whenever people become entangled with one another, might take place by means of objects. It seems funny, and yet the more I thought about it the more prevalent it was. People make things – make art or things that are akin to art – as a way of expressing their need for contact, or their fear of it; people make objects as a way of coming to terms with shame, with grief. People make objects to strip themselves down, to survey their scars, and people make objects to resist oppression, to create a space in which they can move freely. Art doesn’t have to have a reparative function, any more than it has a duty to be beautiful or moral. All the same, there is art that gestures towards repair; that, like Wojnarowicz’s stitched loaf of bread, traverses the fragile space between separation and connection.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Olivia Laing
“Taking a photograph is an act of possession, a way of making something visible while simultaneously freezing it in place, locking it in time.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Olivia Laing
“David was a loner. Although he knew many people, he preferred to relate to them one-to-one. Everyone knew a slightly different David.”
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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