Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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