Oli Arnoldi

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Oli’s Quotes

“...for unless I am myself, I am nobody.”
― Virginia Woolf, Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

tags: nobody, self

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“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

tags: reality, sound

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“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
― Jamie Anderson

tags: grief-and-loss

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“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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“People crave objectivity because to be subjective is to be embodied, to be a body, vulnerable, violable.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

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