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.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch 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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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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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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