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.
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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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