I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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