What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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