The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHEvery day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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 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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Everything in life is writable.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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