I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
Susan Sontag.
“One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.”
“Alone, alone. I am alone I ache Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, Im here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.”
“I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husband...”
“I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it c...”
“I dont care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces intelligence.”
“To the militant, identity is everything.”
“The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devicesafter a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.”
“The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as...”
“Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”