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#1

“This is why I don’t like talking to people. I never think of anything interesting to say. I need time to find words, and that’s hard when people are looking at me. Also, I don’t like people much. Well, some are okay. But not enough to make it a given.”
― Stephanie Butland, Lost For Words

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#2

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#3

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#4

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

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#5

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: confidences, secrets, sharing-secrets

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#6

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: dreams, infatuation, love, sensation, thoughts

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#7

“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.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#8

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#9

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

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#10

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: couples, friendship

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#11

“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#12

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: enthralled, obsession, slavery

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#13

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#14

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#15

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#16

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#17

“الحب الذي يخاف المواجهة حُب جبان”
― علوان السهيمي

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#18

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

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#19

“كُل شخص يَغضَب مِنْ أشيآء كثيرة في هذهِ الحَيآة ,
ولكِن من لديهِ الوقت لِ يفهَم السَبب ؟!”
― سعود البشر, طقس شرقي

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#20

“أن تحاول معرفة كل شيء، فهذا سيقودك في النهاية لأن تسيء فهم كل شيء كنت قد عرفته!”
― سعود البشر, طقس شرقي

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#21

“قراءة كتاب جديد تحتاج لوقت في البداية كي نتآلف معه”
― سعود البشر, طقس شرقي

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#22

“حين نخاف شيئاً لم نعتد مواجهته يوماً يتحول خوفنا إلى قلق ينمو بشكل مستمر بالخوف مما لا نعرفه فيصبح مصدر الخوف جهلنا بحقيقة مانخاف”
― سعود البشر, طقس شرقي

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#23

“يحمل كل منا بداخله رغبات متناقضة ومتعارضة مع رغبات من هم في حياته”
― سعود البشر, طقس شرقي

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#24

“ثمة أشياء في الحياة لا يمكن أن تحدث دون جرأة , وطالما أننا لم نرغب في المجازفة فلن نقدر على إنجاز مانعتقد أنه يبدو صعباً بفعل التردد”
― سعود البشر, طقس شرقي

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#25

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression

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#26

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness

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#27

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#28

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

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#29

“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: expression, plath, sylvia, writing

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#30

“I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
― Lana Del Rey

tags: born-to-die, chameleon, elizabeth-woolridge-grant, life, lyrics, moral-compass, mother, music, ocean, personality, pop, ride, single, song, soul, unusual, wise

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