Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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