balance - by Elaine - manners & mystery
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how to live a life
Odilon Redon, Ophelia, 1905 What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music. — Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or I used to have this fear that I would never be a good writer because my life was too good. To write well, I thought, you had to have suffered, and I mean, truly suffered, not just failed a math test or applied to ten jobs out of college and gotten ten rejections. I was fully bought into the myth of the “struggling artist.” If you’re generally content with your…
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