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.
SYLVIA PLATHIt’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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