So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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 want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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