I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
SYLVIA PLATHAloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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