I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATHI have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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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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