The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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