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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

Sylvia Plath

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Field Freedom Sleep Travel Want
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Break Up Flesh Kill Slave Soul
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Air Feeling Happiness Mountain People Tree
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Awful Deep Freedom Want
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
SYLVIA PLATH

Cold Expectation Goodness Hard Time Kind Love Mood Time Understand
I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Fall Mood People Understand
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Feminism Goodness Live Love Sentence
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
SYLVIA PLATH

Friendship Humour Old
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Couple Important Kiss
A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
SYLVIA PLATH

Different Emotions Man Togetherness Woman World
Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Body Dreams Feminism Giving Mind Thinking
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Always Christmas Disappointment Feeling
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Poetry Voice Writing
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Expression Life Translation Urge Want Writing
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.
SYLVIA PLATH

Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATH

Breath Heart Listen Peace Self Love

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

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