I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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 like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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