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Ballet, he made me see, was a system of movement as rigorous and complex as any language. Like Latin or ancient Greek, it had rules, conjugations, declensions. Its laws, moreover, were not arbitrary; they corresponded to the laws of nature.
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad.”
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“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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Nathani’s 2025 Year in Books
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