One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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