Matthew W

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Thought

Regret

Isolation & Solitude

“My playhouse is underneathOur house, & I hear people Telling each other secrets.” - Komunyakaa

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.” - Nietzche

“I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of

because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living.” -Rilke

Anticipation: “In drawing, the trace always proceeds in the night: it always escapes

-Calvino

Fleas interest me so muchthat I let them bite me for hours.They are perfect, ancient, Sanskrit,machines that admit of no appeal.They do not bite to eat,they bite only to jump;they are the dancers of the celestial sphere,delicate acrobatsin the softest and most profound circus;let them gallop on my skin,divulge their emotions,amuse themselves with my blood,but someone should introduce them to me.I want to know them closely,I want to know what to rely on. -Neruda

The beautiful, according to Edmund Burke, is what is well formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us.

Regret pushes us to right out wrongs and extinguish guilt

Regret is themost basic evidence of human morality

Thought  is  limitless  and  without  consequence.  The  

only  binds  it  faces  are  those  we  put  on  ourselves.

The ripples of seemingly meaningless actions can travel to the farthest corners of the globe and a!ect people you will never even meet.

Solitude  is  not  spacial,  but  mental.

It is important to strike balance between community and isolation. In many ways, thoughts are “darker, emptier,

and simpler,” but more often than not, our thoughts require time, and are more than just emotion. They are concious and rational, whereas feelings are an instantaneous response doe to chemical reaction in out minds.

Through thought, we often realize how our initial feelings about an

event were unnecessary or illogical.

Memories retain the basic outline and structure of what happened, but are blurred by lack ofperspective and the distortingeffects of time.

The answer to the most complex problems can often

be found in simplicity