I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
SYLVIA PLATHShe stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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