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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

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Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979 Quotes

“Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).”

Loss Grief Friends Solitude Mourning

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“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”

World Life Loss Grief Sadness Mourning Irritation

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“Suffering; impossibility of being comfortable anywhere; oppression, irritations and remorse one after the next, everything under the sign "wretchedness of man," used by Pascal.”

Suffering Loss Grief Comfort Mourning Irritation

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“Miseries of a birth.”

Birth Misery Mourning Parenthood

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“I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life”

Life Loss Grief Mourning Unease

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“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes on a leaden hue, desolation settles in, narcissism gives way to a sad egoism, an absence of generosity.”

Loss Grief Mourning Isolation Narcissism Egoism

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“I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.) for: the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing.”

Writing Grief Mourning French

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“Everything pains me. The merest trifle rouses a sense of abandonment. I'm impatient with other people, their will to live, their universe. Attracted by a decision to withdraw from everyone [no longer bearing the world of Y].”

Pain Loss Grief Solitude Mourning Isolation Impatience

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“Only I know what my road has been for the last year and a half: the economy of this motionless and anything but spectacular mourning that has kept me unceasingly separate by its demands; a separation that I have ultimately always projected to bring to a close by a book--Stubbornness, secrecy.”

Loss Grief Solitude Mourning Isolation

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“Since I've been taking care of her, the last six months in fact, she was "everything" for me, and I've completely forgotten that I'd written. I was no longer anything but desperately hers.”

Loss Grief Mourning Mothers Everything Caregivers

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“As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.”

Death Future Mourning

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“Embarrassed and almost quickly because sometimes I feel that my mourning is merely a susceptibility to emotion. But all my life haven’t I been just that: moved?”

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“People tell you to keep your "courage" up. But the time for courage is when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears. Constantly one had to make a decision, put on a mask and that was courage. --Now, courage means the will to live and there's all too much of that.”

Loss Grief Courage Illness Mourning Caregivers Caregiving

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“Horrible figure of mourning: acedia, hard-heartedness: irritability, impotence to love. Anguished because I don't know how to restore generosity to my life--or love. How to love?”

Love Loss Grief Generosity Mourning Irritability

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“Sometimes roused by desires (say, the trip to Tunisia), but they're desires of before--somehow anachronistic; they come from another shore, another country, the country of before.--Today it is a flat, dreary country--virtually without water--and paltry.”

Loss Grief Mourning Desires Wants

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“I limp along through my mourning.”

Time Loss Grief Mourning

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“It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.”

Mourning Grief And Loss

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“The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.”

Mourning Losing A Parent

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“Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it’s when we’re busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.”

Loss Mourning Grief And Loss

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