What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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