It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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