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I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

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Mark Doty

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

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Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

Grief, Heart, Being In Love, Person, Roads, Figure

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Chronicle, Companionable, Darkness, Looks, Read, Stories

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Gateway, Gateways, Think, Thinking, World

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

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Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.

Identity, Names, Particular, Thinking, Ties
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