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.
SYLVIA PLATHGo out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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 want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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