I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHI like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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 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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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