I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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