I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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 wise and cynical as all hell.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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