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    Margaret Rogerson
    “Ah, but you we're not a pawn, All along you have been the queen”
    ― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens
    tags: feminism, inspirational, power
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds
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    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: inspirational, science
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
    tags: science
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    Rachel Carson
    “It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
    ― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
    tags: biology, curious, evolution, existence, life, ocean, science, sea, sinister, threat
    329 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
    ― sylvia plath
    tags: goals
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: neurosis
    3697 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
    You leave the same impression
    Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: friendship, humor, shared-ordeal
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    Sylvia Plath
    “because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression
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    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: amity, companionship, loneliness
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
    tags: death
    1886 likes

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  • #23
    Sylvia Plath
    “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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  • #24
    Rebecca Yarros
    “I will not die today.”
    ― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
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  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: ennui
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: optimism
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  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art, painting
    1939 likes



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