I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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 want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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