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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

Sylvia Plath

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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Eyes Happen Learning Life Silver Slice Yourself
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Friendship Humour Old
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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Body Cling Confidence Loneliness Myself Need Soul Trust
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Deep Disappointment Expectation Relationship
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
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Couple Important Kiss
I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Cruel Truth
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Body Glass Stain Tattoo Temple Window
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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Conflict Constant Escape Life Mature Necessary Solution Struggle Tragedy Try
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
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
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Cure Help Mother Thinking Worse Yourself
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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Field Freedom Sleep Travel Want
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Abstract Concrete Kill One Liner Save
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Broken Heart Desire Destroy Ending Expectation

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