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.
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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