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Sylvia Plath

"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

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"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

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Amber Hurdle

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

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"We are all many things. Sometimes people get used to us being the one thing they most expect from us, and they don't know how to handle the other many things we are and have to offer. This is not our limitation to own. Let's be whatever many things our heart calls us to be. There's not a lot of consistency in freedom, aside from fluid movement among the many things we are. And that's a mighty beautiful thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

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"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

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"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."
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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."
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"Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long."
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"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."
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"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
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"Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?"
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"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."
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"I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired."
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