Sylvia Plath, From A Letter Featured In The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

C.G. Jung, from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East

Text ID: Man is free to decide whether "God" shall be a “spirit" or a natural phenomenon like the craving of a morphine addict, and hence whether "God" shall act as a beneficent or a destructive force.

Martin Podt (@martinpodt)

"'I have led a toothless life,' he thought. 'A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on--and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What's to be done?'"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (1945)

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to William Walton featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

Margarita Aliger on Anna Akhmatova, from a diary entry featured in Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

Slavko Mihalić, “Maestro Extinguish the Candle” (trans. Peter Kastmiler), Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology

Margaret Atwood, “Thoughts from Underground”, Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: my solitude is an intoxication: I am, I'm in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.