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.
SYLVIA PLATHThe truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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 not cruel, only truthful.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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