She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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The 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.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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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