Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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