What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHThe truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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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 am too pure for you or anyone.
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