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

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

Sylvia Plath
Expectations, Feminism, Classic

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Sylvia Plath
Regret, Past, Feminism
"Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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

Sylvia Plath
Desire, Feminism, Classic

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, Feminism, Age
Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Sylvia Plath
Kissing, Feminism, Important
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.197, Anchor

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath
Inspirational, Goal, Feminism

Is there no way out of the mind?

Sylvia Plath
Frustration, Mind, Feminism
'Apprehensions'

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

Sylvia Plath
Life, Despair, Feminism
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.25, Anchor

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

Sylvia Plath
Writing, Feminism, Classic
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

Sylvia Plath
Soul, Feminism, Flesh

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.

Sylvia Plath
Eye, Feminism, Pits
Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.60, Anchor

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Sylvia Plath
Thinking, People, Feminism
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Sylvia Plath
Depression, Silence, Feminism
Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Sylvia Plath
Feminism, Classic, Being A Woman
Sylvia Plath “Poemas”, Editora Iluminuras Ltda

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
Fall, People, Feminism
Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.

Sylvia Plath
Feminism, Hot, Baths
Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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