I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATHLet me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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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