My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI dream too much, work too little.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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