Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
SYLVIA PLATHIt’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 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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The 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.
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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 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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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