I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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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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