I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
SYLVIA PLATHI’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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