If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATHEvery day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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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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