We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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