Lispector, The Apple in the Dark 🍏 (trans. Benjamin Moser)

Books should change your life. So should other people. In fact breakfast should change your life if its good enough. One should always bathe their destiny regularly. That's a benefit of fiction. Another world is always possible.

year of the philosopher-builders

Intelligence is cheap, true understanding is expensive

“I looked straight at you for a few instants. Such moments are my secret. There was what’s called perfect communion - I call it an acute state of happiness” - Agua Viva

very tender

head still spinning from a fast paced two weeks, a few things to pocket: 1. Always take the flight out! 2. Ask and thou shall receive. if they say no, ask again and ask better. 3. If something truly touches the heart, time does very little to minimize its gravity.

“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”

You are the node and network.

“the future has an ancient heart”

Christ this data is so grim: "The troubling decline in conscientiousness. A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults."

Garden of Proserpine

"what determines your success in the game of life is really simply how persistent and efficacious you are at asking for things you want."

“We make each other more brave”