I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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