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Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.
Kafka on the Shore
I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.
Sputnik Sweetheart
I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I am still so na�ve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don�t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
And I have the others in me. Even when I�m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I�m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.
The Book of Disquiet
Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not
One must not hope to be more than one can be
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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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