Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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