Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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 am too pure for you or anyone.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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