What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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