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The Bell Jar
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Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.
“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“...if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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