I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
SYLVIA PLATHThe constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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