I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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 important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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