"I am myself. That is not enough."

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Source : Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.185, Faber & Faber

Sylvia Plath

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“In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form ofÂ languageÂ linking timelessness and time.”

Source : "The Elements of Typographic Style". Book by Robert Bringhurst, www.theguardian.com. 1992.
“In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux.”
“Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.”

Source : "Complete Works of Saki".
“To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.”
“Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.”
“You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.”
“So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.”
“When things are going well, I hate to quit.”

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