Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
SYLVIA PLATHThe hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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