The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
SYLVIA PLATHOne thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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