We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATHHow 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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