Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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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Kiss me, and you will see how important 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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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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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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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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