I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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