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“Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted.”
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“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― The Collected Poems
― The Collected Poems
“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.”
― Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
― Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
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