I woke to the sound of rain.
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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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