I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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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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