I am myself. That is not enough.
SYLVIA PLATHShe stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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