The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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