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From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject.
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“Whatever's burning in me is mine”
― Sula
― Sula
“It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.”
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“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
― The Collected Poems
In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.”
― The Collected Poems
“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
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