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Anne Sexton killed herself because it is too painful to live in this world without numbness, and she had no numbness at all.
Erica Jong, the New York Times. Discovered by my friend Emily, who is actually not at all morbid, just sharp enough to realize that this is a really, really beautiful way of putting it.
It being the way life can feel sometimes. Also, not sure when my tumblr got so Angela Chase depress-athon; it’s not normally my disposition. I’m more of a cherry cordial than a black licorice sort of girl, if that makes sense.
