I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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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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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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