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I am too pure for you or anyone.

Sylvia Plath

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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Conflict Constant Escape Life Mature Necessary Solution Struggle Tragedy Try
The 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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Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Broken Heart Depression Pain Sad Silence
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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Alone Couple Crazy Each Other People Single
Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Body Dreams Feminism Giving Mind Thinking
Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Myself Steer
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Absolute Finding Fulfillemnt Myself Poem Writing
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Close Danger Deep Finding Ourselves Want
Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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City Inspirational One Liner Self Respect Wicked
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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Broken Heart Cry Depression Pain Sad
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Born Drops Eyes Shut World
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Deep Disappointment Expectation Relationship
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Absolute Finding Fulfillemnt Myself Poem Writing
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Hard Learning Life Love
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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Dreams Horrible Imagination Life Poverty Work
Everything in life is writable.
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Life Writing

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