See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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 abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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