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An aversion to instant acceptance is really only honouring the principle of “due reflection.”
“you don’t want to live just one life, which could be typed, which could be tossed off in a thumbnail sketch = “She was the sort of girl ….” And end in 25 words or less. You want to live as many lives as you can …”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The more people fight, the more they come to resemble each other. We should choose our enemies wisely, because we become like them.”
― Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want
― Wanting: Mimetic Desire: How to Avoid Chasing Things You Don't Truly Want
“Face it, kid: unless you can be yourself, you won’t stay with anyone for long. You’ve got to be able to talk. That’s tough. But spend your nights learning, so you’ll have something to say.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Human beings fight not because they are different, but because they are the same, and in their attempts to distinguish themselves have made themselves into enemy twins, human doubles in reciprocal violence.”
― Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
― Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
“A man without ever the least appearance of anger, or any other passion; able at the same time most exactly to observe the Stoic Apathia, or unpassionateness, and yet to be most tender-hearted: ever of good credit; and yet almost without any noise, or rumour: very learned, and yet making little show.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
Surbhi’s 2025 Year in Books
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