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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.

Sylvia Plath

I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Afraid Depression Hurt Myself Sarcastic
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Art Broken Heart Depression Die Exceptional
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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Broken Heart Cry Depression Pain Sad
Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Care Matter Opinion Orgasms
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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Be Yourself Deep Hell Responsiblity
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Break Up Flesh Kill Slave Soul
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Inadequate Trouble
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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Beauty Coincidence Combination Fairy Tale Hurt Life Shock Togetherness
I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Feeling Terrible Vilnerable Writing
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Body Glass Stain Tattoo Temple Window
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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Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Close Danger Deep Finding Ourselves Want
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Life Myself Organ Rare Stitch
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Abstract Concrete Kill One Liner Save
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Growth heavy Kiss
People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Disappointment People Regard Sad Stars

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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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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