The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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