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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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 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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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