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.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from 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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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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