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sometimes I suspect that the appeal was in the rule-breaking (e.g., to steal, to cut the class, to lie)—which was, itself, the sex. That lust to me was wanting to transgress beside another. To be so totally compelled. To share a truth you
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“A Word is Dead
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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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
Zoe’s 2024 Year in Books
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