I still love creativity and expression, and especially wild free expression, but I know that meaning comes from struggle with constraints. Meaning is when creativity has high stakes.
“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence — but more generally takes the form of apathy...”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“Hemingway escribió: «El mundo nos rompe a todos, pero luego algunos se vuelven más fuertes en las partes rotas».”
― Salvar el fuego
― Salvar el fuego
“Son ciertas las mentiras que ha dicho el que dice la verdad.”
― Salvar el fuego
― Salvar el fuego
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