After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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