So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
SYLVIA PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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