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“I know I’m not myself with people, but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“My repressed feelings leak out —slowly – in the form of resentment – a continual leakage of resentment.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world.”
― Amy Lowell, The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. - May Sarton


You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It's only that. - Edna St. Vincent Millay


We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
- Albert Einstein

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Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place. - Robert Brault

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. - Gail Godwin

Art makes us exercise the weakest muscle in the human body, the muscle of empathy. - Etgar Keret

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic
difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. - Edna Ferber

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself. - Edna Ferber

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. - Susan Sontag
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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is
something you remember and that you were the one laughing. - Marlene Dietrich

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. - Henry James”
― Multiple Authors