She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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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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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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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