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“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Now these things never happened, but always are.”
― Sallustius, Concerning the Gods and the Universe

“There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
― William Gibson

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You only lose what you cling to.”
― Guatama Buddha

“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης.
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Be patient, my heart: for you have endured things worse than this before.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”
― E.M. Cioran

“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater, We-Think : Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
― Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine

“We are what we believe we are at given times.”
― Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis

“Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And I give you bowls of ice
Cream.
I give you lots of kisses,
And I give lots of hugs,
But I never give you sandwiches
With bugs
In.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain,”
― Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Into our inner being
The riches of the senses pour.
The Cosmic Spirit finds itself
Reflected in the human eye,
Which ever must renew its strength
From out that spirit source.”
― Rudolf Steiner, The Illustrated Calendar of the Soul: Meditations for the Yearly Cycle

“Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.”
― R.D. Laing

“i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself.”
― Tori Amos

“What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.”
― Tori Amos, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl