“Let us not be manipulated by societal scripts if we want to maintain our self-authorship that guarantees independent thought and action, allowing social relations to run smoothly. ("Terra Incognita - The lady is a tramp")”
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“When only silence remains, we stand suspended between remembrance and presence in a fragile space between being grounded in the past and making sense of the present. ("Only silence remained")”
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“Beauty promises recognition, connection, and loftiness. It invites us to soar and transcend. Beauty lends magnitude to our lives, but we feel dislocated if we miss sense and substance. Its absence is like a fall from grace. Beauty is one of the last refuges against emptiness. Without it, we become void drifters in a barren world. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
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“When nature no longer enchants us, we must face disenchantment, the sense that the world has lost its wonder. If we suffer from the loss of authentic experience, it is because beauty has been commodified or simulated, and the sublime has become unreachable. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ ).”
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