I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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 too pure for you or anyone.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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