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.
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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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 want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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