I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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