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.
SYLVIA PLATHLove life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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