It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHAs a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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