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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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 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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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