I am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Please 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.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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