Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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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 to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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