I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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