It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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 talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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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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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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