I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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