It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt wise and cynical as all hell.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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