Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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