I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
SYLVIA PLATHAnd by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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