I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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 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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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