What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI am what I feel and think and do.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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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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