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.
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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