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The art is not one of forgetting but letting go

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go
– Rebecca Solnit

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  2. Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you. – Kamal Ravikant
  3. Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be. – Sally Brampton
  4. If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one’s feet is real in a way reading with one’s eyes alone is not. – Rebecca Solnit
  5. … a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane. – Rebecca Solnit
  6. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. – Rebecca Solnit
  7. In contemporary parlance, sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. – Rebecca Solnit
  8. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. – Rebecca Solnit
  9. …the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. – Rebecca Solnit
  10. …explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge. – Rebecca Solnit
  11. Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. – Rebecca Solnit
  12. Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. – Rebecca Solnit
  13. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. – Rebecca Solnit
  14. The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. – Rebecca Solnit
  15. Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss. – Rebecca Solnit
  16. Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street. – Rebecca Solnit
  17. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. – Rebecca Solnit
  18. …I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival… – Rebecca Solnit
  19. No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. – Rebecca Solnit
  20. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. – Rebecca Solnit
  21. To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. – Rebecca Solnit
  22. the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. – Rebecca Solnit
  23. Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
  24. A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. – Rebecca Solnit
  25. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself. – Rebecca Solnit
  26. Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. – Rebecca Solnit
  27. Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
  28. Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? – Rebecca Solnit
  29. A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. – Rebecca Solnit
  30. Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it. – Rebecca Solnit
  31. We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. – Rebecca Solnit
  32. Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. – Rebecca Solnit
  33. Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat. – William Paul Young
  34. Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person’s throat. – William Paul Young
  35. Forgiving is not about forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt – Mary McLeod Bethune
  36. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  37. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  38. Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes. – David Sheff
  39. [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95) – Stephen Levine
  40. Patience can be a means of letting matters mature to a proper state for action, not just a way of letting time slip away. – Iain M Banks

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