The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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 what I feel and think and do.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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