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“I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.” quote by Ottessa Moshfegh — Download Open image

“I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.”

Ottessa Moshfegh

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Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed…

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If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

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“...the face I wore at work, my death mask.”

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Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma.…

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“Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.”

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What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted,…

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“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.”

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“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in the world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to…

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“Like a favorite song you’ve heard so many times it begins to annoy you,”

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“I watched that old world go by, away and away, gone gone gone, until, like me, it disappeared.”

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“I was nervous. It had been a long time since I’d gone any place I wanted to be.”

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