My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt wise and cynical as all hell.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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