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John Knowles
“The winter loves me,” he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, “I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
John Knowles, A Separate Peace by John Knowles: The teacher's companion
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Virginia Woolf
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Susan Sontag
“You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.”
Susan Sontag
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Nikos Kazantzakis
“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”
Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

Sylvia Plath
“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that "shaping" force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire. If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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