I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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