The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHOpinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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.
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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 feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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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