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No sooner does one rise a little above one's own petty joys and pains, than crystal clear wellsprings of new joy and new pain open up.

— Anna Margolin

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Drunk from the bitter truth,/I refuse all other wine.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Somewhere in the world, in a city/I am flowering like a lily.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Reality and dreams are weaving together, flowing into each other and I don't know where one ends and the other begins.

Long and sorrowful stretched out those days.

During Sleepless Nights (1909)

My books, my great friends, gaze down on me with quiet resentment, calling me to them.

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