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The Bell Jar
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Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.
“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“He feels that when he has found it there will be nothing for him to look for.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn't sleep.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I learned that while the fallen woman may keep her unloved door plain and her drapes drawn, her circle small and her fire low—if she's wise, I suppose she will—the path to her back stoop will be well-traveled. I guarantee it.”
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“There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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