Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Everything in life is writable.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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 want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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 felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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