I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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