The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATH
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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 have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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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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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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