Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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 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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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