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 PLATHI’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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