"Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness ..."

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Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

Josephine Winslow Johnson

#Sleep Quotes #Dark Quotes #Self Quotes

“All those commodities are going to have to rise in value as we are in short supply and we are printing too much money.”
“Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.”
“I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really foreign to me. I think what I saw strange coming to L.A. was that a lot of people are a little bit two-faced. In Puerto Rico, you don't get that.”
“I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.”
“I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.”
“Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.”
“The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.”
“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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