I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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