Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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