morningeggs:

Yup.

just-shower-thoughts:

People often confuse charisma for intelligence, confidence for competence, and beauty for virtue.

aestheticbiopolar:

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sawasawako-archived:

“Words provided to me—loss, grief, sorrow, bereavement, trauma—never seemed to be able to speak precisely of what was plaguing me. One can and must live with loss and grief and sorrow and bereavement. Together they frame this life, as solid as the ceiling and the floor and the walls and the doors. But there is something else, like a bird that flies away at the first sign of one’s attention, or a cricket chirping in the dark, never settling close enough for one to tell from which corner the song comes.”

– Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

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soracities:

“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you’re scared of what it means to do so.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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humanoidshape:

“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man or any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: The gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose… That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself? Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the light of sunrise and sunset, to buy safety for yourself - safety forever?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

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