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God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
The Journals of Sylvia Plath
I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.
The Book of Disquiet
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
The Book of Disquiet
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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