What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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