I am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHSometimes 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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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