Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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