Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
SYLVIA PLATHWear your heart on your skin in this life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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 shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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