Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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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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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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