Book: Exercises in the art of loneliness. Page 2

The loneliness caused by the virtual exclusion, as painful as it is something that arises from communication in real life, the same sad wave of emotion which almost anyone on the Network somehow survived.

There is no evidence brighter on the priorities than how it spends money, especially if they are little.

I don't believe that the only cure for loneliness is to meet someone. Do not have. I think the point here is this: you must learn to be with yourself and understand that much of the apparent us personal illness - actually a consequence of the larger forces of stigmatization and exclusion, which can and should be opposed.

Art doesn't do much for that. It is not possible to return the dead to life, is not able to resolve a quarrel among friends - or to heal from AIDS, or slow the pace of climate change. But art still has extraordinary ability, a strange ability to bring people, including strangers, negotiations, penetrating into the lives of others and enriching. The art is not able to create closeness, but knows how to heal wounds and, moreover, to make it clear that not all wounds need to heal, not all scars are ugly.

I felt as if I had been threatened with extinction, while at the same time, all my feelings were so bare and excessive that I often regret to part with him, at least for a few months until they subside within.