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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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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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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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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