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Tag: Wisdom

Non-being/Being

“Every day includes much more non-being than being.”

— Virginia Woolf, from “A Sketch of the Past,” Moments of Being 

Format QuotePosted on August 22, 2019May 5, 2022Categories CommonplaceTags Being, Existentialism, Mindfulness, Quote, Virginia woolf, WisdomLeave a comment on Non-being/Being

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”

— Donald Winnicott, psychoanalyst (via Dana Levin)

Posted on August 21, 2019September 6, 2019Categories CommonplaceTags Art, Communication, Creativity, Donald winnicott, Quote, Quoted, Wisdom, Writing, Writing lifeLeave a comment on
Neither White Nor Male

Neither White Nor Male

“Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.”

— Toni Morrison, Sula (via @missberlyreads)

Posted on August 6, 2019June 5, 2021Categories CommonplaceTags Feminism, Literature, POC, Quote, Quoted, RIP, Sula, Toni morrison, Wisdom, Womanism, WomenLeave a comment on Neither White Nor Male

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