I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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