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In everybody�s life there�s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can�t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That�s how we survive.
Kafka on the Shore
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
Dance Dance Dance
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Leaves of Grass
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
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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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