The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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 am too pure for you or anyone.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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 felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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 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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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