Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHLife has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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