I am myself. That is not enough.
SYLVIA PLATHLife has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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