So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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