It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHI am myself. That is not enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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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 sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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