I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
SYLVIA PLATHAloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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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