It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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