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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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 myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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 feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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