It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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