If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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