What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHSo learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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