If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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