I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
SYLVIA PLATHEverything in life is writable.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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