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Theirs was a turbulent marriage and, if I felt more generous, I would say my parents could not help it. But I was at the heart of the tumult and it is difficult to forgive the lack of tranquillity in your home.
“I collected men with interesting names.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
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“So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.”
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“I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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