"I desire the things that will destroy me…" — Sylvia Plath

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

— Sylvia Plath

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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath has 520 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it…
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide…
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted…
I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The…
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to…
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer…
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting…
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
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I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my… — Mario Batali
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach… — Mitch Albom
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money.… — Louisa May Alcott
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino

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