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Somewhere along the way I worry I’ve picked up the wrong idea, that a good mother is an invisible one. Absorbed the pernicious myth that the ideal mother is a sort of child’s personal assistant, anticipating all their needs, leaving no
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“The world is full of new developments and love must also be something that innovates. Risk and adventure must be re-invented against safety and comfort.”
― In Praise of Love
― In Praise of Love
“The only way to end things without too much suffering is to make the farewell a ceremony.”
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“Dans un mois, dans un an, comment souffrirons-nous Seigneur, que tant de mers me séparent de vous. Que le jour recommence et que le jour finisse Sans que jamais Titus puisse voir Bérénice.”
― Berenice
― Berenice
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant- success in circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm delight
the truth's suberp surprise
As lightning to the children eased
with explanation kind
the truth must dazzle gradually
or every man be bilnd-”
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Too bright for our infirm delight
the truth's suberp surprise
As lightning to the children eased
with explanation kind
the truth must dazzle gradually
or every man be bilnd-”
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“Zero deaths” war, “zero risks” love, nothing random, no chance encounters. Backed as it is, with all the resources of a wide-scale advertising campaign, I see it as the first threat to love, what I would call the safety threat. After all, it’s not so very different to an arranged marriage. Not done in the name of family order and hierarchy by despotic parents, but in the name of safety for the individuals involved, through advance agreements that avoid randomness, chance encounters and in the end any existential poetry, due to the categorical absence of risks.”
― In Praise of Love
― In Praise of Love
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