I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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