I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHWe must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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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