Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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