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The Bell Jar
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The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. Besides, those little shorthand symbols in the book my mother showed me seemed just as bad as let t equal time and let s equal the
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“It is my bad luck that this has happened to me.' No, you should rather say: 'It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearful of the future.' Because such a thing could have happened to any man, but not every man could have borne it without pain. So why see more misfortune in the event than good fortune in your ability to bear it?”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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