I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHThe sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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