Wear your heart on your skin in this 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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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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