Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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 didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Everything in life is writable.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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