Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this 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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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