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.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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