Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI am too pure for you or anyone.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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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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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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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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