Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATHI have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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