I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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