"When I came to New York I was in pieces, and though it sound..." — Olivia Laing

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When I came to New York I was in pieces, and though it sounds perverse, the way I recovered a sense of wholeness was not by meeting someone or by falling in love, but rather by handling the things that other people had made, slowly absorbing by way of this contact the fact that loneliness, longing, does not mean one has failed, but simply that one is alive.

— Olivia Laing

The Lonely City

Loneliness Being human Quote of the Moment Good writing Alone

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