“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
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Source: 1930 - 1941, from 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009), p. 132: in a letter to his sister Vartush Mooradian, after Mai 1938

We Had Him (2009)
Context: Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.
Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.
He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.
Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

A Moosehead Journal.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
“Love is just another means of manipulation. We can use that emotion like we use hatred and fear.”
Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)