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.
SYLVIA PLATHHow we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Life 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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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