I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHEternity bores me, I never wanted it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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.
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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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