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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.

Sylvia Plath

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Close Danger Deep Finding Ourselves Want
Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Depression Goodness Happen Please Struggle
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Break Up Flesh Kill Slave Soul
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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Hate Money Myself Nervous People
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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Acceptance Demonstrate Expectation Feeling Finding Giving Love
As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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Air Always Live Poet Practical Teaching
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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Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
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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Fall Mood People Understand
It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Be Yourself Deep Hell Responsiblity
I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Afraid Depression Hurt Myself Sarcastic
I dream too much, work too little.
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Dreams Work Writing
Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Care Matter Opinion Orgasms
It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Depression Safe Touch World
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Inadequate Trouble
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Always Christmas Disappointment Feeling
So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
SYLVIA PLATH

Eyes Happen Learning Life Silver Slice Yourself

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 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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