What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHAnd 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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