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    Vincent van Gogh
    “To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: life-lessons
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: heart, love, man, sea, soul, storms
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “There is peace even in the storm”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: love, peace, storm, turmoil
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: searching, striving, uncertainty
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: simplicity-in-life, truth
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Sometimes I feel dead," I told her, "and I hate everybody.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: dialogue, mental-illness, misanthrope, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I felt myself float up and away, higher and higher into the ether until my body was just an anecdote, a symbol, a portrait hanging in another world.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “The speed of time varied, fast or slow, depending on the depth of my sleep. My favorite days were the ones that barely registered.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: sleep, time
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I thought that if I did normal things—held down a job, for example—I could starve off the part of me that hated everything. If I had been a man, I may have turned to a life of crime.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: hate, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, normalcy, ottessa-moshfegh
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: life, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh, repetitive
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: miserable, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “I feel very, very alone."

    "We're all alone, Reva," I told her. It was true: I was, she was. This was the maximum comfort I could offer.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: alone, cold-comfort, dialogue, humor, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Your problem is that you're passive. You wait around for things to change, and they never will.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
    tags: my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh, passiveness, reva
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    Ottessa Moshfegh
    “Being pretty only kept me trapped in a world that valued looks above all else.”
    ― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression-silence
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: poetry
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    Sylvia Plath
    “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
    "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
    "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar
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  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: helping, mother, sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar, think, thinking, too-much, worse, yourself
    423 likes

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    Sylvia Plath
    “Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I knew you'd decide to be all right again.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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