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Faces Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
- I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.…
- Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.
- Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I…
- God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin…
- …* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting…
- So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness…
- I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
- Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?
- The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after…
- And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.
- But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will…
- It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.
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- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman