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“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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“I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
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I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.”
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
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