I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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 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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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