It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHAfter all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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 am what I feel and think and do.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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