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 PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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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 overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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