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“If a man tells you that you're worrying too much, ask him to do the worrying for you.”
― Olga Ravn, My Work

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“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: living-in-the-present, looking

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“Because a living person has their own reality, he says. The person who's gone has no reality anymore, except in thoughts. And once they're gone from thoughts, they actually are completely gone. If I don't think about him, literally, I'm ending his existence.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

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“What if my sadness is actually my most brutal teacher?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“We turn our love backwards to make sense of life, to make beauty and significance of our mother's life. Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother. Many people do that by becoming mothers. They do it by having children. They do it by imitating what their mother has done. By imitating and honoring what their mother has done, this makes them a mother.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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