Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
SYLVIA PLATHI must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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.
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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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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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 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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Everything in life is writable.
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