If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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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