Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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