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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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