I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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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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