"We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks"
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Then she swerves: “we live life through love and ardvarks.” The misspelling (or purposeful wrongness) is the point. “Aardvarks” are absurd, unglamorous, stubbornly terrestrial. Dropping them beside “love” punctures the cosmic register and drags us back to the bodily, the comic, the pet-name texture of existence. If “astronomical” suggests the fantasy of looking down from above, the aardvark is a reminder of snouts in the dirt, of living among the ridiculous specifics.
Subtext: Yosito is suspicious of the contemporary hunger for elevation. She stages a clash between two engines of meaning-making: pharmacology and affection, the administered and the messy. The quote works because it refuses a clean hierarchy. It implies that our most expansive visions might be chemically scaffolded, while our actual lives are organized by attachment and by the strange, non-symbolic creatures we can’t stop caring about. It’s cosmic yearning with a slapstick undercut: a modern spirituality that can’t escape the pharmacy or the punchline.
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Yosito, Isabel. (2026, January 16). We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-explore-astronomical-life-through-medicate-135616/
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Yosito, Isabel. "We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-explore-astronomical-life-through-medicate-135616/.
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"We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-explore-astronomical-life-through-medicate-135616/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.















