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 PLATHI am what I feel and think and do.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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