It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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