Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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