Mari Ruti

“As Luce Iri- garay explains, "What makes me one, and perhaps even unique, is the fact that you are and I am…

— Mari Ruti

“Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.”

— Mari Ruti

“it is our perpetual dissatisfaction with ourselves that causes us to approach the world as a space of possibility that has the…

— Mari Ruti

“Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.”

— Mari Ruti

“We routinely replace damanged parts of ourselves with new ones that are, arguably, more resilient, more able to handle challenges. As long…

— Mari Ruti

“Yet if we are to take the Lacanian account of singularity seriously, we must admit that what really counts in life is…

— Mari Ruti

“Life has a way of turning things around. Those who mourn well know this. As a result, they also live well--with courage…

— Mari Ruti

“we are tempted to erase the unsettling elements of the other's alterity-the ways in which the other does not coincide with our…

— Mari Ruti

“What makes this inner void so difficult to deal with is that it's amorphous. We can't fix it because we can't pinpoint…

— Mari Ruti

“Schopenhauer once put it, we insist on living our lives "with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as…

— Mari Ruti