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The thirsty man knows water more keenly than does the sated one.
this pain is the muse of beauty.
It is that feeling that my deepest anxieties over passing things makes me who I really am:
“You’re born in pain, and pain is what we’re in most of the time. And I think the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.”
the true path to ecstatic joy is through acute melancholia.
We need the tonic of wildness—
