“Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
― The Dead
― The Dead
“The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I shoot hot bolts into you, I make your ovaries incandescent […] I am fucking you, Tania, so that you’ll stay fucked.”
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“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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