Sir Frank Dicksee (detail)
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[ID: an excerpt from ‘Poem for a Birthday: Who,’ a poem by Sylvia Plath
“Eaten or rotten. I am all mouth.”]
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Franz Kafka, from The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka; “In The Penal Colony,”
A Thin Line, Ryuichi Tamura (translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)
“I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.”
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
[text ID: You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.]
Oh how quickly May became June and June will become July and this year will end just like last year ended.
“I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary, 1937-1939
“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
So what if I have no money? Can I not dream of a cosy house by the lake with a big garden and a whole room dedicated to books?