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“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“The quiet sense of something lost”
― Tennyson

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
― Sylvia Plath, Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Very few people do this any more. It's too risky. First of all, it's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“How many different deaths I can die?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Not being perfect hurts.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Shut up in public those bloody private wounds.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“We are never prepared for what we expect.”
― James A. Michener, Caravans

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”
― Edgar Allen Poe, Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.”
― Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre