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Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes (350)

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Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.
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I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.
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I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.
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As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.
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I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.
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I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
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There was a beautiful time.
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Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.
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There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.
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I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.
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Your room is not your prison. You are.
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I collect men with interesting names.
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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.
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God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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It was sometime in October she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept any more.
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As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.
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Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
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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.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.
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The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
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And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
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I like people too much or not at all.
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