Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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She 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 woke to the sound of rain.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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