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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.

Sylvia Plath

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.
SYLVIA PLATH

Afraid Criticize Experience Glory Inspirational Myself Numb Pain Shut Taste Want
I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Feeling Terrible Vilnerable Writing
Everything in life is writable.
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Life Writing
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 felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Cynical Feeling Hell Wise
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Inadequate Trouble
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
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Awful Deep Freedom Want
The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Come Love Truth
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Growth heavy Kiss
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Couple Important Kiss
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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Acceptance Demonstrate Expectation Feeling Finding Giving Love
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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Dreams Horrible Imagination Life Poverty Work
Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Myself Steer
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 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

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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