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mar 19 2017 ∞
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  • ambedo: a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details —raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee— briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
  • chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.
  • opia: the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’...
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mar 13 2017 ∞
mar 26 2020 +
  • "I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..." ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
  • "Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain h...
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