I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps 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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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 myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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