I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
SYLVIA PLATHIt’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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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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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Everything in life is writable.
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