If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATHThe constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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