What I most want to say is how real you are, always, for me.
(What a blessed thing this sense of reality is, so long as it remains to one.)Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Raymond Queneau written c. February 1952
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(What a blessed thing this sense of reality is, so long as it remains to one.)Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Raymond Queneau written c. February 1952
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“What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead. But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be–and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult–then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn’t it?”
Ingmar Bergman, from an interview conducted c. October 1964
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Jonathan Gottschall)
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A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you.
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What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.Albert Camus, from Selected Works; “The Plague,” published c. 1947
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Q: I feel like you just came back from the future!
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Haha something like that
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I fell in love with the world in you.Noah and the Whale, Hold My Hand As I’m Lowered
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You have to die a few times before you can really
live. Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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live. Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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“Intimacy isn’t only romantic it can be platonic too. It’s allowing someone the space to be emotionally naked.”— Ayishat A. Akanbi
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I’m alive and growing. I feel once again, and I rejoice, that I’m not busy dying—I’m still busy being born.Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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