I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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 is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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