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.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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