I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt wise and cynical as all hell.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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