Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
—Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin
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Artigos etiquetados “amizade”
Connection is not a transaction. It’s not a deal you make. It’s a vibrational field we can tap into on a daily basis in the most mundane of circumstances (…).
—Esther Perel
— It’s like… you were my best friend, and then you were gone.
— Yeah. Well, it sucked for me too.
Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024), realizado por Tiffany Paulsen.
They had drifted apart, as people do when they promise to stay in touch; the ones who are going to stay in touch don’t need to promise.
—Edward St. Aubyn, Lost For Words, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014
Agora recolhia na memória cada uma das palavras que ele me dissera e procurava ver se havia amor nelas, agarrava naquelas palavras todas e dava-lhes voltas e voltas dentro de mim, e a certa altura pareciam ter um significado e logo a seguir significavam outra coisa e por fim largava-as e toldavam-se-me os olhos.
—Natalia Ginzburg, Foi Assim, Relógio D’Água 2023 (1947)