Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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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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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 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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