What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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 too pure for you or anyone.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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