Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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