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“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
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“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
"Why should you, with so much energy and talent?"
"That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore.”
― Little Women
"Why should you, with so much energy and talent?"
"That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try anymore.”
― Little Women
“Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
― The Aeneid
― The Aeneid
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Marina’s 2025 Year in Books
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298 friends
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