theia

“Have you ever thought about the enormous courage of trees? I have, and it seems to me amazing, The Lord dumps them down and they just gotta stick it, no matter what happens.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

“Doctors and nurses offer unconditional care, they treat whomever it is their job to heal. In order to be ethical they must be impartial.
But to be in love is to be partial. It is to be specific. All romantic love is conditional, in that the condition is the persons essential nature. Their themness. If your love for a person isn’t predicated on the condition that they are them, right now as they are, and is instead predicated on their need for that love, or on your thinking that you could do a good job of making that person happier or better, then you are a nurse. You are a robot hero. And maybe you can save the day but you are not a lover. You are not in love.”
― CJ Hauser

“—What should I do? I can't bear living. Life is so short and I can't bear living.
—But there's so much, Lóri, that you still don't know. And there's a place where despair is a light and a love.
— And afterward?
— Afterward is Nature.
— You're calling death Nature.
—No, Lóri, I'm calling us Nature.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures