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Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks. There's nothing new about them at all. They're people.
The Dying Animal
No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best
Strangers are contemporary posterity
People who make no noise are dangerous
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong
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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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