Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
SYLVIA PLATHI have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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 myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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