Allie Dechow
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Jane Eyre
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Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
“Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside.”
― This is How You Lose the Time War
― This is How You Lose the Time War
“How can one think of art institutions in an age that is defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of the institution have become fuzzy.”
― Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
― Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
“(For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say ‘good to eat’ when they mean ‘beautiful’ and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.)”
― Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection
― Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection
“Now that I was thinking of myself in the first person singular again I found my own situation much more interesting than his.”
― The Edible Woman
― The Edible Woman
“That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.”
― Real Estate
― Real Estate
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