I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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