It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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