

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.”
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“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”
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“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations

“If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets –secrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one’s closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one’s own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That’s why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial.”
― The Insulted and Humiliated
― The Insulted and Humiliated

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