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“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.”
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
― Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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