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“[she] feels the force of an unattained but attainable self.”

“She finds herself, one could say, in a stare of nature with respect to the world she knows. Her decision is to exile herself from that world, to find whether, in acquiring the education she senses herself to crave, she, as she will be then, or the world, as she will then know it, is right.”

“it seems to me that […] this doubt is never permanently resolved”
… and i ought to be uncomfortably comfortable with that !
(@ megha)

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated mystery.” -Emerson