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The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

Rebecca Solnit
Letting Go, Art, Loss
Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.33, Canongate Books

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.

Rebecca Solnit
Loss, Maturity, Sorrow
Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.24, Penguin

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

Rebecca Solnit
Change, Loss, Government

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