It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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