I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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 have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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