I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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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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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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Life 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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I dream too much, work too little.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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