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“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
― As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“Korkma, aydınlığı bir ucundan da olsa görenlerin işi değil korkmak. Karanlıktaki çocuklar korkar. Biz ne çocuğuz, ne de her yer karanlık.”
― Yenişehir'de Bir Öğle Vakti
― Yenişehir'de Bir Öğle Vakti
“Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much takes place within me each day that by comparison I find a paucity, a stinginess, a silence in people which drives me to excess.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 5: 1947-1955
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 5: 1947-1955
“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I often strike a balance between a strong desire and an accident of which I am either the instigator or the victim, an illness, or some other tragedy. Knowing whether I would agree to pay the imaginary price of disaster is a sure means of assessing the strength of my desire, possibly also of challenging fate: ‘I don’t care if the house burns down so long as I manage to finish writing this book.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
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