So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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 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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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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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