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the dazzle of traffic heightened the June morning quiet of Central Park, and the sun, full of first summer, that dries the green crust of spring, plunged through the trees fronting the Plaza, where they were breakfasting.
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
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“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In”
― South and West: From a Notebook
― South and West: From a Notebook
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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