Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from 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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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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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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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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