She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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