My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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