Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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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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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.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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