Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
SYLVIA PLATHWhen you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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