The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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A 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.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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