It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt wise and cynical as all hell.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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