I am myself. That is not enough.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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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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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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