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“Did the girl choose magic, or does magic choose the girl?”

— Nikita Gill, from “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters,”

“The world sometimes just happens to us,”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Linda Gray Sexton written c. July 1974

Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950

“She is sensitive. She does not see the world as it is. She’s a bit up in the clouds. She cannot fit in.”

— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

“I am constantly in search of new sensations, new emotions.”

— Sarah Berhardt, from a letter to Jean-Mounet Sully wr. c. January 1874

“My life seems to have stopped. I feel neither joy nor sorrow.”

— Sarah Bernardt, from a letter to Jean-Mounet Sully wr. c. January 1874

“I am an incomplete person but a good one at heart.”

— Sarah Berhardt, from a letter to Jean-Mounet Sully wr. c. January 1874

Queen Kelly, 1929

“I want you to be fully yourself. I have very deep feelings for you.”

— Catherine Texier, from a letter to Joel Rose written c. October 1966

Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks (1951-1959)

“Close the door. Remove the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.”

— Paulo Coelho (via goodreadss)

wide open field hold a special place in my heart

I can immerse in the sky and swim in the sea but I must not forget that, there too, is a world inside me.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

“Her moods and her feelings were rushing like newborn torrents.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977