My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHA man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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