The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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 have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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