She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
SYLVIA PLATHA man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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