Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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 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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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’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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