My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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