I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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