I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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There 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.
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