I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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 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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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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