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“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“「いつか、ある人にこんなことを聞かれたことがあるんだ。たとえば、こんな星空や泣けてくるような夕日を一人で見ていたとするだろ。もし愛する人がいたら、その美しさやその時の気持ちをどんなふうに伝えるかって？」
「写真を撮るか、もし絵がうまかったらキャンバスに描いて見せるか、いややっぱり言葉で伝えたらいいのかな」
「その人はこう言ったんだ。自分が変わってゆくことだって……その夕日を見て、感動して、自分が変わってゆくことだと思うって」”
― 旅をする木 [Tabi o suru ki]
「写真を撮るか、もし絵がうまかったらキャンバスに描いて見せるか、いややっぱり言葉で伝えたらいいのかな」
「その人はこう言ったんだ。自分が変わってゆくことだって……その夕日を見て、感動して、自分が変わってゆくことだと思うって」”
― 旅をする木 [Tabi o suru ki]
“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Jade’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jade’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Manga, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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