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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
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse
The ego is not master in its own house
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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."
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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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