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“I have too much conscience injected in me to break customs without disastrous effects”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There could only be a meeting of their mysteries if one surrendered to the other: the surrender of two unknowable worlds done with the trust with which two understandings might surrender to each other.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“What it boiled down to was a frenzied hope that there was more to life than the reality around us. Only then could we claim a destiny we did not feel cursed to.”
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“Eu mal entrei em mim e assustada já quero sair. Eu descubro que estou além da voracidade. Sou um ímpeto partido no meio.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“What can I do with happiness? What can I do with this strange and piercing peace, which is already starting to hurt me like an anguish, like a great silence of spaces? To whom can I give my happiness, which is already starting to scratch me a bit and scares me. No, I don’t want to be happy. I prefer mediocrity. Ah, thousands of people don’t have the nerve to linger a while longer in this unknown thing which is feeling happy and they prefer mediocrity.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
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