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    Sylvia Plath
    “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: books, life, limits
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “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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    Sylvia Plath
    “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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    Sylvia Plath
    “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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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: chaos, emptiness, normalcy, numbness, stillness
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    Sylvia Plath
    “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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    Sylvia Plath
    “What did my fingers do before they held him?”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “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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    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
    to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
    How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
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    Sylvia Plath
    “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Out of the ash
    I rise with my red hair
    and I eat men like air.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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    Sylvia Plath
    “And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: alone, leaving, moving
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  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
    tags: numbness, poetry
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    Alexandra Katehakis
    “The process of dissociation is an elegant mechanism built into the human psychological system as a form of escape from (sometimes literally) going crazy. The problem with checking out so thoroughly is that it can leave us feeling dead inside, with little or no ability to feel our feelings in our bodies. The process of repair demands a re-association with the body, a commitment to dive into the body and feel today what we couldn’t feel yesterday because it was too dangerous.”
    ― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
    tags: defense, dissociation, mechanism, psychology, repair, trauma
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: clouds, star
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
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    Richard Dawkins
    “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
    ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
    tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination
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    Woody Allen
    “I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.”
    ― Woody Allen
    tags: existentialism, humor, uncertainty
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  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: existentialism, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Umberto Eco
    “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
    ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
    tags: existentialism
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    Samuel Beckett
    “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: existentialism, failure, inspirational
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    Betty Friedan
    “Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?”
    ― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
    tags: existentialism, feminism, housekeeping, inspirational, marriage, parenting, purpose
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: existentialism, humanism, post-modernism
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    Saul Bellow
    “One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: existentialism, psychology, true-to-life
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    Noah Cicero
    “When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.”
    ― Noah Cicero, The Condemned
    tags: existentialism, pain, screaming, suffering
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