Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
SYLVIA PLATHSee, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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