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diagnosed her with emotional detachment disorder, which seemed like a stretch to Greta, who preferred to think of it as “poise” on a bad day, “grace” on a good one, and, when she was feeling full of herself, “serenity.”
“The past is never there waiting to be discovered, to be recognized for exactly what it is. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.”
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“Today someone had asked me who my person was. I thought about the question for a moment and said, ‘I am.’.”
― Feast
― Feast
“Myth, the smoke of history, is seen to signal new and more relevant meanings when espied from the distance of later millennia.”
― India: A History
― India: A History
“Growth requires the acceptance of the most uncomfortable truth.”
― Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
― Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, but she did not appear to care deeply about any of the men [Steiner]”
― Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
― Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
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