Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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