The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATHSee, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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