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“How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.”

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“It's too warm for red wine; now I mix gin and tonics instead. I find they make the ordinary sensation of living lighter, less ruffled.”

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“But now I remember: I am mentally ill. Properly, officially. And cannot be held responsible for my actions, my words.”

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“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”

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“The worse things get, the more onerous they are to put right again. But this applies to every aspect of life.”

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“We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks we shared, Ben and I often ended up talking, and time and time again, he would say things that resonated so powerfully with my uneasiness about life, and back there and then, I believed it was an uneasiness unique to us, and that we were somehow bound by it.”

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“But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.”

Depression Inaction Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking

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“In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.”

Humor Christmas Dialogue Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking Inequity Presents

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“But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.”

Artist Worthy Guilty Artistic Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking

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“But now I am beginning to understand we all become tyrants beneath our own roof slates. Or maybe we don't; maybe it's just my father and me—the tyrannical gene I inherited from him.”

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“I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.”

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“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards and laser pointers, make them seem like real grown-up people in a way I have never been.”

Adulthood Respectability Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking Grown Ups

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“I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance; within which I can lie down and disappear from sight.”

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“Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.”

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“My phone doesn't ring and the doorbell doesn't either and I begin to wonder whether I am still alive.”

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“I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.”

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