“The love of artists or mystics is often "artificial." Because they find beauty in thought alone, intimacy in invention, or ecstasy in silence. They love whom they choose, not whom the outer world permits. Because they do not carry the outer world within their inner world; rather, it is their inner world that holds power over the external one. Therefore, they do not love the person presented by the outer world but the one portrayed by their inner world. And that is not the person’s "real" self. Therefore, they do not love the person presented by the outer world but the one presented by their own inner world. And that is not the person’s "real" self, but an "imagined" version of them.” LoveRomanceImaginationPerspectiveArtistsInner WorldMysticsExternal WorldSovereignityArtifical Author:Sov8840
“A person can live their entire life within four walls and still have a rich existence, for everything is possible with a unique inner world nourished with an astonishing sense of imagination, art, and philosophy. This is what's called a "terrarium.” ArtImaginationExistenceCreativityExperiencePrisonEscapismInner WorldEntrapmentTerrarium Author:Sov8840
“Living inside oneself means no one can take or steal anything from them. But it also means no one can give or gift them anything real either...” ArtPhilosophyLiteratureIndependenceExileEscapeDetachmentBondingInner WorldSovereignity Author:Sov8840
“When I express what I do, think, or feel in my solitude, I feel like I betray something sacred. I feel like I betray my feelings by exposing them, by putting them into words. Because solitude is being alone, after all; it's not suitable for any kind of external audience, or it turns into a commercial corruption.” LonelinessExpressionSolitudeBetrayalAloneIsolationExposureInner WorldAdvertisementSovereignity Author:Sov8840
“Imagining someone who will not collapse my complexity into compressed and simplified roles like friend, lover, genius, or ghost... such a being exists only in my dream world.” PhilosophyBoundariesLabelsComplexityInner WorldSimplificationLabelingCompressionLabelImagining Author:Sov8840
“Normal people have nothing to forget, for they never even possess the ability to form memories—because they do not have an inner life to begin with.” NormalMemoryNormInner LifeNormalityInner WorldSuperficialityHollownessNormativityNormative Author:Sov8840
“What is meant by "the real world" is most often not the "real" but merely the physical world.” WorldRealRealityPerspectiveMetaphysicsObjectivitySubjectivityInner WorldPhysicalityPhysical Author:Sov8840