I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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