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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Sylvia Plath
Regret, Past, Feminism
"Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

Sylvia Plath
Dream, Past, Here I Am
Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Sylvia Plath
Acceptance, Winning, Past
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.205, Anchor

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Sylvia Plath
Inspirational, Past, Gold
Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

Sylvia Plath
Suicide, Past, Thinking
"The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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