I don't need you to save me

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But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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Une Femme Mariée (1964), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

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Sylvia Plath, "Three Women"

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Charlotte Brontë, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charlotte Brontë

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“My anger scares me, my fear scares me, and somewhere in there is shame, too — why am I so enraged and so scared? I am afraid of going to bed and of waking up; afraid of tomorrow and of all the tomorrows after.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Self-Portrait as an Incomplete List of Mysteries," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

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Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems