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“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Thinking
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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Ideas #Age #Feminism
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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.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Life #Sad #Creativity
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“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Expectations #Feminism #Classic
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“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Trying #Different #Becoming
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“Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Girl #Sex #Kindness
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“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Heartbreak #Home #Long
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Book #Famous Inspirational #Skills
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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.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Chaos #Cold #Kind
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“I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Eye #Air #Jars
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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.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Sadness #Mad #Choices
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“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Love #Dream #Cutting
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Dark #Long #Soul
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“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Laughing #Waiting #Sides
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“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Desire #Feminism #Classic
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“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Moving #Eye #Feminism
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“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Encouraging #Rejection #Trying
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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.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Self #Hurtful #Together
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“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Kissing #Feminism #Important
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“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Jealous #Writing #Thinking
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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.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Giving #Soul #Body
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring
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“I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Jobs #Satisfied
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“Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Love Life #Color
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“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Inspirational #Sad #Women
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“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Arrows #July #Rockets
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“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Girl #Sleep #Night
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“How we need another soul to cling to.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Loneliness #Soul #Needs
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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Friendship #Inspiring #Funny Best Friend
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“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.”
-- Sylvia Plath
#Roots #Do Not Fear #Bottom
