One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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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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