I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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