Mental activity is a useful distraction from mental and emotional pain. If you find pleasure in thinking, and knowledge produces awareness of suffering, this can be a vicious feedback. Distract yourself w/ small pleasures and temporary certainty on occasion.
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send us their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished. The artist’s labor to discover a means of understanding that transcends matter and experience, indeed words, something different from their appearance, is of a nature counterposed
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to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life. - Marcel Proust
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