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Sylvia Plath Quotes: Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
         

Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?


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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.



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If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.



If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.



I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.



What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.



Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.



I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.



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.

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.



If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.



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.

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.





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If you go on the road hoping to find it, you might discover you've had it with you all along. That which you seek is yourself.



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In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.



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Your memories don't make you who you are.




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I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on clouds and lived on lilies.



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