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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.

Sylvia Plath

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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Intense Life Novel Perhaps Poetry
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Contain Crack Darkness Leak Life
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Capable Desperate Love Obvious Want
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Capable Desperate Love Obvious Want
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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Active Choice Constant Happiness Mad Mood Passive Sad
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Poetry Voice Writing
I am what I feel and think and do.
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Attitude Feeling One Liner Thinking
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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Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
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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Beat Beauty Broken Heart Come Back Defeat Home Sorrow Story
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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Cold Expectation Goodness Hard Time Kind Love Mood Time Understand
Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Depression Intoxicate Love Madness One Liner Sad
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Break Up Flesh Kill Slave Soul
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Expression Life Translation Urge Want Writing
I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Care Depression Feeling Mutual Quite
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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Broken Heart Cry Depression Pain Sad
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Bore Eternity One Liner Want

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