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You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
– Rebecca Solnit

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  2. We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don’t. – Jeanette Winterson
  3. To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. – Spyridon Marinatos
  4. Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. – Charlotte Lamb
  5. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. – Rebecca Solnit
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  7. … 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
  8. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. – Rebecca Solnit
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  10. …the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork. – Rebecca Solnit
  11. …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
  12. Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone. – Rebecca Solnit
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  14. At my glummest, I sometimes think women get to chose- between being punished for being unsubjugated and the continual punishment of subjugation. – Rebecca Solnit
  15. The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. – Rebecca Solnit
  16. 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
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  18. The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. – Rebecca Solnit
  19. …I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival… – Rebecca Solnit
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  21. I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. – Rebecca Solnit
  22. To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous. – Rebecca Solnit
  23. the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. – Rebecca Solnit
  24. Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
  25. 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
  26. Disenchantment is the blessing of becoming yourself. – Rebecca Solnit
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  32. We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies. – Rebecca Solnit
  33. Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. – Rebecca Solnit
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  35. Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
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  38. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
  39. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
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