I dream too much, work too little.
SYLVIA PLATHI woke to the sound of rain.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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