The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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