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When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

Fernando Pessoa

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all about love - bell hooks
all about love - bell hooks

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy—to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work.

| Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

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The great trouble in human life is that looking and eating are two different operations. Children feel this trouble already, when they look at a cake for a long time almost regretting that it should have to be eaten and yet are unable to help eating it. It may be that vice, depravity and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always in their essence attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at. Eve began it. If she caused humanity to be lost by eating the fruit, the opposite attitude looking at the fruit without eating it, should be what is required to save it.

| Simone Weil
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Stop blaming the system for your weakness. Push through. Make the world better. If you give up and complain, you raise defenses and nobody can ever really win. Get up, get dressed and fucking work to see change.

being present means being in the space you are in and being fully integrated there. not being present means thinking of the space you last were or the one you will go after this - and a part of you is actually there so that is why you are tired and out of reach. just be here.

| Octavio Paz, The Art of Poetry No. 42
| Octavio Paz, The Art of Poetry No. 42
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