“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“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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“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
― Happening
― Happening
“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
ala’s 2025 Year in Books
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