I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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