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Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feeli...more

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You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their plac...more

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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

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...there are times when silence is a poem.

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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that ...more