See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
SYLVIA PLATHI love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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 felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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