People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Everything in life is writable.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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