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.
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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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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