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“Don't let the wicked city get you down.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”
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“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.”
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“Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.
--from "Crossing the Water", written 1962”
― The Collected Poems
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.
--from "Crossing the Water", written 1962”
― The Collected Poems
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