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.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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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 am what I feel and think and do.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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