How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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