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The good you withhold from others is good you withhold from yourself. Btw

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“We see time to anchor our world of “buzzing, blooming” experience. We must anchor it; I couldn’t type this to tell you, and I wouldn’t know who I was or who you are, otherwise.”

— Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

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“If you immerse your feet in icy water you forget grief for a moment. I did this once, my brother-in-law made us cross a cold stream barefoot, that winter, walking in the woods–I was emptied, then elated, blissful; but didn’t try it again. Grief returns vengeful after you’ve repulsed it.”

-Alice Notley, from “I–Towards a Definition" 

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“Attitudes towards beauty are entwined with our deepest conflicts surrounding flesh and spirit. We view the body as a temple, a prison, a dwelling for the immortal soul, a tormentor, a garden of earthly delights, a biological envelope, a machine, a home. We cannot talk about our response to our body’s beauty without understanding all that we project onto our flesh.”

- Survival of the prettiest: The science of Beauty, Nancy L. Etcoff, (July 2000), USA, First Anchor Books Edition pp 28-28.

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epicdecor

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Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust (tr. C. K. Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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scanning my favourite essays like the worst university tutor ever - slightly blurry and always off kilter

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Summer Landscape (1875) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Joy Sullivan, "State of Emergency", Instructions for Traveling West

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