I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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