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Unreal. Although a challenging read, I drank in every word of this book. I will worship at Marsha's altar forever. I absolutely adore her and this book was a fascinating insight into her life and the development of DBT. I do not think she's the best
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“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.”
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“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
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“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Music for Chameleons
― Music for Chameleons
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
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“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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