It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 woke to the sound of rain.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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