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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and the streetlights are part of the spotlight apparatus on a bare stage set up for you to walk through. You get a feeling of being listened to, so you talk aloud, softly, to see how it sounds.
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God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
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I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.
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To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative—which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
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What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.
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I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.
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How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
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Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
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Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?
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The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.
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I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!
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Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man...
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I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.
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I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it had been before; how there was that germ of positive creativeness. Character is fate; and damn, I'd better work on my character. I had been withdrawing into a retreat of numbness: it is so much safer to NOT feel, NOT to let the world touch one.
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My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
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We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.
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I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
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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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Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
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I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.
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It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.
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And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Sylvia Plath
Born:
October 27, 1932
Died:
February 11, 1963
(aged 30)
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