Ankita S.

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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

- Sylvia Plath

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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading."

― Virginia Woolf

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

― Emily Dickinson

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One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

― Mahmoud Darwish

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After you nothing goes and nothing returns.

― Mahmoud Darwish

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“We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories.”

― Mahmoud Darwish

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"The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth."

- Mahmoud Darwish

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Never felt so relatable when Sylvia said-

“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout br3asts and ov@ries rather than p3nis and §crotum; 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...”

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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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"The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it."

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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No Longer Human

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

― Osamu Dazai

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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

― Albert Camus

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In the midst of the life's storm, be like a sunflower, standing tall and smiling. Despite the chaos around you, keep your head held high and keep shining no matter what.

Just like the sunflower turns towards the sun , seek out the light even in the darkest moments. Your determination will be a beacon of hope, inspiring your loved ones to preservere and never give up.

You will be a reminder that even in adversity, there's always a way to bloom and thrive.

- Ankita S.

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You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

- Samuel Beckett