If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
SYLVIA PLATHI like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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