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“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”

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This book is a collection of poems that spans different styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of poetic expression. more

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Sylvia Plath

American poet, novelist, and playwright. Her works are known for their profound emotion and unique style, and she is considered one of the most important female writers of the 20th century. more

“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.”

People May Book Whole Body Care School Earth Interest Brain Written Subjects Listening Prison Don't Care Your Body Horrible Innocent Instance Torture Charm Governors Incapable

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”

Should Mean Persons Secret Alive Tired Active Unhappy Cures Miserable Bother Occupation Leisure

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

Should Children Matter School Students Adults Essence University University Education

Book:The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”

Feels Absence

Author:Simone Weil

“It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.”

Has Beens Rare Things

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.”

Helping Causes Extremes Compromise Imbalance Accommodations Bipartisanship Two Extremes

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule”

Knows Wells Limits Tolerance True Nature

Author:Frank Herbert

“It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.”

Hate Husband Practicals Substitutes

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.”

Heart Self Broken Hatred Ruins Self Hatred

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

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