I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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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 want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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