“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
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letter to Ashok Arora, 4 January 1967, published in Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (2005) p. 230
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Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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