Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATHThe truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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.
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