My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHAs a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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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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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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