She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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