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1 " An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy. "
― Susanna Kaysen , Girl, Interrupted
2 " The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse. "
― , The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
3 " A woman carries her inner life - lugs it around or holds it in fumes that both poison and bless her - while nourishing another's inner life, many others actually, while never revealing too much madness, or, possibly, never revealing where she stores it: her island of lost mind. "
― Durga Chew-Bose , Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
4 " Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy. "
― Susanna Kaysen
