Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

Barry X Ball, Purity, 2008. Made from White Iranian Onyx.

things that are scary that you just have to get over at some point

being wrong (as distinct from)

other people having different opinions from you (as distinct from)

minor disagreements

the eternal uncertainty caused by living in a universe where luck exists (e.g. Just Anything could happen to you for no reason)

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i've had this list open for so long but i can't think of anything else

i sorta feel like most other fears are kind of fine to have

oh like spiders i guess

anyway. time to be weird about it

there is something wrong with me but together there could be something wrong with us <3

embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

— Franz Kafka asking Felice Bauer to marry him (Letters to Felice)

Albert Camus, letters to María Casares.

Camus: If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: “I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.” And, as far as everything else is concerned, I say no.

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma