Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
SYLVIA PLATHAloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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 felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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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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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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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 shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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