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284 - “There was nowhere in the world, Baru thought, no collection of lords or lovers, that did not have its own politics.”332 - “Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”
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“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
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“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
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“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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