What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHLove life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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 want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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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 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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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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