Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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 woke to the sound of rain.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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