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Olivia Laing

  • ulfadwioцитирует2 года назад
    Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person
  • b0931281472цитирует2 года назад
    You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    You can see them, but you can‘t reach them
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    You can see them, but you can‘t reach them, and so this commonplace urban phenomenon, available in any city of the world on any night, conveys to even the most social a tremor of loneliness, its uneasy combination of separation and exposure.
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    Unhappy, as the dictionary has it, as a result of being without the companionship of others.
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise.
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    Loneliness is a very special place.
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    Many marvellous things have emerged from the lonely city: things forged in loneliness, but also things that function to redeem it.
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. It feels shameful and alarming, and over time these feelings radiate outwards, making the lonely person increasingly isolated, increasingly estranged
  • Ega Ratu Edoцитирует2 года назад
    I don’t want to be alone. I want someone to want me. I’m lonely. I’m scared. I need to be loved, to be touched, to be held.
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