I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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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 like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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