Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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 to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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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.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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