December 2011
23 posts
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”
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Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via buriedinbooks)
should I keep looking for the exceptions?
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (via itseasyjusttolookaway)
thanks to that artifice we manage to delude ourselves and pine and pine and pine for things that are coloured differently from reality.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
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James Baldwin (via loves-lovely-words)
But James, I really don’t care about the hurt that everyone who was alive, or who had ever been alive, felt.
The pain is now, and it is real. And it hurts so bad
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