My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHWear your heart on your skin in this life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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