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Alchemised
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He wasn’t kind; he simply wasn’t cruel. He wasn’t as monstrous as he could be. And for Helena’s fracturing mind, an absence of cruelty was sufficient solace. For her starved heart, it was enough.
“fortunately all governments will fall
the only ones which won't fall are the good ones
and the good ones don't yet exist”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
the only ones which won't fall are the good ones
and the good ones don't yet exist”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
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