My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHAfter all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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