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“Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light."
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
“You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
“Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from "Transcendental Etude”
― The Dream of a Common Language
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from "Transcendental Etude”
― The Dream of a Common Language
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