72. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?– No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink– Here you are again, it says, and so am I. Maggie Nelson
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