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.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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