Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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