I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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