Sylvia Plath Quotes

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Death Depression Fear Imagination Thinking
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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Different Emotions Man Togetherness Woman World
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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Age Education Fade Feminism Horrible Ideas Indifference
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Close Danger Deep Finding Ourselves Want
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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Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Enough Lifetime Live Reading Thinking Work
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Bore Eternity One Liner Want
Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Depression Intoxicate Love Madness One Liner Sad
Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Alone Betrayal Company Important Self Love
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Friendship Humour Old
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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Hate Money Myself Nervous People
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Feeling Life Melt Negative Person Shadow
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Inadequate Trouble
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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Afraid Criticize Experience Glory Inspirational Myself Numb Pain Shut Taste Want
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Enough Important Need Smile Thinking
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Field Freedom Sleep Travel Want
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Children Perfection Terrible
Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Colour Life Love Morning One Liner Positive Touch
I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Broken Heart Dead Flower Relationship
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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Intense Life Novel Perhaps Poetry
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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Eyes Happen Learning Life Silver Slice Yourself
Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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City Inspirational One Liner Self Respect Wicked
People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Disappointment People Regard Sad Stars
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Inspirational Rejection Show Slip Try

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