After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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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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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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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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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