I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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 talk to God but the sky is empty.
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