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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Everything in life is writable.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I woke to the sound of rain.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath 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 PlathSylvia Plath Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath 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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