Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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