when kafka wrote "i cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me" and clarice lispector "and it's inside myself that i must create someone who will understand" and sylvia plath "can you understand me a little, love me a little?"
when virginia woolf wrote "the world is entire and i am outside of it, crying" and anaïs nin "i watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult" and mary oliver "this is the world. i'm not in it. it is beautiful"
when henry miller wrote "i suffer because of myself. it is my own soul all the time that is bothering me." and carrie fisher "i wish that i could leave myself alone. i wish that i could finally feel that i punished myself enough."