I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHA man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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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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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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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