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“Ne te quaesiveris extra." (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“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
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