The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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