I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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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 live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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