I am myself. That is not enough.
SYLVIA PLATHI love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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And 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.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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