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 PLATHWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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