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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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