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The Wax Child

by Olga Ravn

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Manuela’s Notes & Highlights

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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

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“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”

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“…though under temporary gloom at night, the return of day will hardly fail to bring return of spirits. The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma

tags: hope, morning

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“night opens
I enter
night shuts
I don't leave”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

tags: alejandra-pizarnik, entering, leaving, night, poetry, staying, the-galloping-hour

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“All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue. I sing a song of mourning. Black birds over black shrouds. My brain cries.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

tags: alejandra-pizarnik, anguish, bleak, fleeing, mourning, poetry, the-galloping-hour

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“Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

tags: love, sympathy

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“Words tell stories. Specifically, the history of those words - how they came into use, and how their meaning morphed into what they mean today - tell us just as much about a people, if not more, than any other kind of historical artefact.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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