I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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 myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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