Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Everything in life is writable.
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