Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
SYLVIA PLATHLove is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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