So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
SYLVIA PLATHIf the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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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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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Everything in life is writable.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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