Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
SYLVIA PLATHI have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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