My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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 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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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