What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHThe sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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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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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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