My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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