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“I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”

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This book includes Plath's intimate reflections, poetry, and prose, offering a glimpse into her thoughts and experiences throughout her life. 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

“Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.”

Men Giving Made Law Courses Born Four Effects Gun Twenties Carrie Categories Altered Bankruptcy Creditors Bayonets

Book:Candide: or, Optimism

Source: Candide: or, Optimism

“Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.”

Ends Beautiful Universe Black Possibility Strange Conscious Infinite Ancient Violent Holes Variety Evolve Soup Minerals Black Hole

Book:War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

Source: War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not

“had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.”

Done Young Crazy Brave Excuse No Excuses

Author:Kenny Chesney

“The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.”

Men Way Looks Made War Unbearable Hardened Unbearable Things

Book:The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up

Source: The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up

“It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too”

World Feels Matter Dream Jobs Imagination Memories Fit Towns Faults Where You Are Other Worlds

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

Giving Writing Art Real Lasts Artist Order Force One Thing Sweet Depends Concern Bitter Disorder

Author:James A. Baldwin

“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become.”

Way Writing Children Long Sentences Who I Am Rhythm Paragraph Residents Magical Thinking

Author:Joan Didion

“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”

Action Grief Brave Resistance

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.”

Action Universe Heaven Lines Equal Opposites Scientist Bigger Reactions Rhythm Chains Heartbeat Geometry Initiate Stripes Triangles Latitude Apex Chain Reactions

Author:Ellen Hopkins

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