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Era ridículo consumirse en impotentes afanes sociables. Soledad era independencia, yo me la había deseado y la había conseguido al cabo de largos años. Era fría, es cierto, pero también era tranquila, maravillosamente tranquila y grande, como el tranquilo espacio frío en que se mueven las estrellas.

- Herman Hesse, el lobo estepario

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Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.

“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.” — Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit from Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon, 2016 / Penguin Random House, 2017) (via Alive on All Channels)

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livinglifedeliberately

“& so what—if my feathers are burning. I never asked for flight.”

— Ocean Vuong, “Devotion” from Night Sky With Exit Wounds

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first love/late spring - mitski

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slightlyacademia

“I am writing to reach you—even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are. I am writing to go back to the time,

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I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”

-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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