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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 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
Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Care Matter Opinion Orgasms
It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Be Yourself Deep Hell Responsiblity
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Hard Learning Life Love
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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Black Broken Heart Depression Eyes Feeling Hollow Silence
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Bone Curse Love
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Cry Lie Love Shadow
I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Fall Mood People Understand
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Alone Certain Empty Strange Street Unique Walk
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
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Creative Doubt Enemy Gut Imagination Life Worst Writing
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Couple Important Kiss
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Air Couple Friendship Imagination Meet Valentine
I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Cynical Feeling Hell Wise
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Friendship Humour Old
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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Alone Couple Crazy Each Other People Single

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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