I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATHSo learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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