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"Why did I try to read while tipsy. Ok stuff about life and growing older and time passing and not being able to escape it but holding onto moments while you can… culmination of their perspectives in a sense" — May 31, 2026 09:54PM
"Why did I try to read while tipsy. Ok stuff about life and growing older and time passing and not being able to escape it but holding onto moments while you can… culmination of their perspectives in a sense" — May 31, 2026 09:54PM
The Bell Jar
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then
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“You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
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