The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATHShe 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 felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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