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.
SYLVIA PLATHCompared with me, a tree is immortal.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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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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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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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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