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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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