“I am her home, her room. […] She must come in, I must let her come in. She can't have the door of her home shut against her.”
—Fragments of a Journal, Eugène Ionesco; tr. Jean Stewart.
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Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
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For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.
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Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness [...]
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 26th January 1958
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"I am alone in my room, between two worlds."
– Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"
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I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my will-power? The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962 (ed. Karen V. Kukil)
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Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller d. Feb. 22, 1932, in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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“Tell them you came and saw
and looked into my eyes
and watched the shadows of the guard receding.”
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// always an angel, never a god //
Posca marker on National Geographic magazine fragment, lyrics from 'Not Strong Enough' by Boygenius
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Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″
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[…] all I have ever touched or said to others becomes only the rehearsal for you […]
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath: excerpt from a letter to Richard Sassoon, 22nd November 1955
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