We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATHI woke to the sound of rain.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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