Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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