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“A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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