One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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