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.
SYLVIA PLATHGo out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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