“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath
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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
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What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”
― Sylvia Plath
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Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming?”
― Sylvia Plath
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The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.”
― Sylvia Plath
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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
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath
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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
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― Sylvia Plath
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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.”
― Sylvia Plath