I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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