“If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.”
“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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