Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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