After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Everything in life is writable.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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