"Why canâ€™t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?"

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Sylvia Plath

#Trying Quotes #Different Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.”
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.”
“But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.”
“I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.”
“The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.”

Source : "Fictional character: Andre Delambre". "The Fly", July 16, 1958.
“Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.”
“Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.”

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