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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“How we need another soul to cling to.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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