I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATHI have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in 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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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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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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