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.
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 talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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