I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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