It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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