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“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”

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Pico Iyer

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Now it’s Prince William’s turn for a prize, presented by The Princess, as a member of the winning polo team 🏇🏻 – Cameron Walker

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E all’improvviso arriverà qualcuno che ballerà con te, anche se non gli piace ballare, e lo farà perché è con te e nient'altro Jorge Luis Borges 

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““Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.” - Nayyirah Waheed”

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“La distrazione. La massima invenzione dell'essere umano per continuare a tirare avanti. Per fingere di essere quello che non siamo. Adatti al mondo.”

— Paolo Sorrentino

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The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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7 Benefits of Solitude

1. It helps you to regain your perspective on life.

2. It helps you think more clearly and rationally.

3. It helps you to relax, and to unwind properly.

4. It helps to regulate intense, powerful emotions.

5. It helps you figure out what you truly think and feel.

6. It helps you find solutions that are meaningful to you.

7. It helps you to be real, and to find yourself again.

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Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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“Come and kiss me and let’s forget.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.

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Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

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Iain Thomas, The Light That Shines When Things End