I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHWear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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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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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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