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Finding Me

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""I had created a life for myself and I asked God constantly, 'when do I get to enjoy it fully?'"

this BOOK. it's so good!!" — 3 hours, 18 min ago

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Catherine’s Quotes

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide

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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: love

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