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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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May 07, 2026 05:49AM

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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: ataraxy, defiance, empowerment, independence, individuality, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

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“It grieves me to think of you in the past—
Look at you, blindly clinging to earth as though it were the vineyards of heaven while the fields go up in flames around you”
― The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

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“Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.
I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn't expect to waken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light . of earliest spring—
afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy
in the raw wind of the new world.”
― The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

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“What was my crime in another life,
as in this life my crime is sorrow,
that I am not to be permitted to ascend ever again, never in any sense permitted to repeat my life,
wound in the hawthorn,
all earthly beauty my punishment as it is yours—
Source of my suffering, why have you drawn from me these flowers like the sky,”
― The Wild Iris - Louise Glück

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