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.
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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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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 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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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