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Primeval and Other Times

by Olga Tokarczuk

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Jul 22, 2022 12:34PM

“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.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

tags: mental-illness, sanity, society

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“La rebelión consiste en mirar una rosa
hasta pulverizarse los ojos.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, Árbol de Diana

tags: inspirational, rebellion, resilience

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“Dile que los suspiros del mar
Humedecen las únicas palabras
Por las que vale la pena vivir”
― alejandra pizarnik

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“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: love-in-the-time-of-cholera

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