Category: Commonplace
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Being in Delusion
“You go home and invent a story about me, and now you can’t separate me from the person you’ve imagined me to be. You call that, I suppose, being in love; as a matter of fact, it’s being in delusion.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Common Universal Needs
Without Choosing
“We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.”
— Maria Popova, Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years, Brain Pickings Reborn – The Marginalian
All By Myself
“I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.”
— Fernando Pessoa
Passing
“We’re all of us passing for something or other. Aren’t we?”
Parched and Barren
“If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.”
— John O’Donohue, Anam Ċara (via Erica Avey)
Sounds no. 106
The First Frosts
Back on My Bullshit
Back on my bullshit, I was down bad
They was kickin’ me when I was on my ass
Now I’m back on my bullshit, every day, I grow
Meditatin’ on the bluff when I’m low
Said I’m back on my bullshit, dealin’ with the shame
Let it go and told the devil get away
Now I’m back on my bullshit, glad I made it home
I was low but you know I never fold, bitch, yeah
Lisa Marie Blair 