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sirenofthegreenbanks · 2 days

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i want

sometimes, you just want something so hard you have to lie about it, so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute

most days i want to live

to experience

how real hunger has a real taste

most days the garden‘s almost enough.

your vulnerability

little pink flowers

on the sage, even though

the man said we couldnt‘t eat it. not this kind.

and i said,

then, gosh, what‘s the point?

not all days. but most days i do

but

i don‘t want

to be vulnerable

in a field i am the absence of field.

this is always the case.

wherever i am

i am what is missing

do you love me enough that i may be

vulnerability is courage in you and inadequacy in me

weak

with you? do you love me

i‘m drawn

stripped of everything

to your vulnerability but

that might be lost, for only

the things i will

have

repelled by mine

for ever?

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sicknessinmotion · 8 months

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EVERY TIME I LOOK BACK, MY CHILDHOOD GROWS HORNS; ON AGING.

lorde // iasoup on tumblr // alain de botton // jenny slate // katie maria // silas denver melvin // chelsea wolfe

#lorde #alain de botton #jenny slate #katie maria #silas denver melvin #chelsea wolfe #web weaving #webweaving #.w #words #quotes #poetry #writing #excerpts

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soracities · 2 years

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

#q #lit #quotes #alain de botton #essays in love #the topography of love #devotionals #reading #typography #m #x

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mehreenkhan · 2 years

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Alain de Botton

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philosophors · 10 months

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“Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.”

— Alain de Botton, “On Love: A Novel”

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thoughtkick · 11 months

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

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nobeerreviews · 7 months

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Loneliness is the space between you and the people you want to be close to.

-- Alain de Botton

(Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

#loneliness #space #distance #alain de botton #travel photography #mallorca #palma de mallorca #spain #quote

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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The values captured in art shouldn’t remain in the museum - they should go with us into the playroom.

- Alain de Botton, Art as Therapy

#botton #alain de botton #quote #art #art as therapy #femme #aesthetics #beauty #therapy #museum #paintings #culture #arts

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rattslothmann · 9 months

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Love Language

// Love Language by SZA // Faraaz Kazi // Interview with Celine Sciamma on "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" // illicit affairs by Taylor Swift, All Too Well music video, edit by @nothinglikeamadwoman // Bad luck by Noah Kahan // Alice Oseman, "Radio Silence" // Alain de Botton, On Love // Where She Grows, "The Lovers" // Everywhere, Everything by Noah Kahan // Love Letters from WWII between Gibert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher via BBC //

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tamurakafkaposts · 4 months

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton,

#tamurakafkaposts #transilvanya #selfportret #black and white #photographers on tumblr #alain de botton

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derangedrhythms · 2 years

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The most interesting faces generally oscillate between charm and crookedness. There is a tyranny about perfection, a certain tedium even, something that asserts itself with all the dogmatism of a scientific formula. The more tempting kind of beauty has only a few angles from which it may be seen, and then not in all lights and at all times. It flirts dangerously with ugliness, it takes risks with itself, it does not side comfortably with mathematical rules of proportion, it draws its appeal from precisely those details that also lend themselves to ugliness.

Alain de Botton, from 'Essays in Love'

#alain de botton #essays in love #prose #on beauty

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yorgunherakles · 25 days

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sevdiğini ilan etmek, eksik olduğunu, iğdiş edildiğini ilan etmektir. sevmek sahip olmadığınız bir şeyi vermektir.

bruce fink - lacan'da aşk

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soracities · 2 years

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

#q #lit #quotes #alain de botton #essays in love #typography #dolor ante lucem #reading #m #x

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somehow---here · 11 months

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Forse è proprio vero che di fatto non esistiamo finchè non c’è qualcuno che ci vede esistere, che non parliamo finchè qualcuno non è in grado di comprendere ciò che diciamo; in sintesi, che non siamo del tutto vivi finchè non siamo amati.

Alain de Botton, Esercizi d'amore, 1993

#alain de botton #amore #amare

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surqrised · 8 months

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

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philosophors · 5 months

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“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

— Alain de Botton

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