"Such is my only consolation. I know that relapses into despair will be numerous and deep, but the memory of the miracle of the liberation carries me as a wing towards a purpose which makes me dizzy: a consolation which is more than a consolation and bigger than a philosophy, that is a reason for living"
Stig Dagerman
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Eva Gerney wears a white silk-faille suit with a narrow skirt sheathed in two pleats by Ceil Chapman. Black velvet hat, covered with white straw by John Frederics; and jewelry by Van Cleef & Arpels. Photographed by John Rawlings for American Vogue, March 15, 1951.
