“I had come all this way, and I could barely look. Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment. ‘From the mountain you see the mountain’, wrote Emerson.”

A set of 240 aphorisms about love, loss, longing, and loneliness, which orbit around the idea of the color blue. Contains some exquisite writing. Packed with quotes and concepts from a wide variety of sources. The quotes from Emerson were some of my favorites. Some of the passages really resonated with me. A thought provoking, sometimes poetically luminous, and emotionally potent read.

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“Violette Heymann” by Odilon Redon, c. 1910 (CC 0).