I woke to the sound of rain.
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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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