I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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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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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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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