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“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.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Lords and Ladies
― Lords and Ladies
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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