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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.

Sylvia Plath

I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Feminism One Liner Pure Women Empowerment
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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Continue Existence Moments Reflection She Shop Window
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Feeling Life Melt Negative Person Shadow
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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Cold Expectation Goodness Hard Time Kind Love Mood Time Understand
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
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Broken Heart Desire Destroy Ending Expectation
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Contain Crack Darkness Leak Life
Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Cheer Growth Life Positive Soul Spring
Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Myself Steer
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Capable Desperate Love Obvious Want
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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Active Choice Constant Happiness Mad Mood Passive Sad
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Alone Certain Empty Strange Street Unique Walk
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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Different Emotions Man Togetherness Woman World
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Experience Feeling Life Live Mental Physical Possible Shade Variation
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
Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Beat Beauty Broken Heart Come Back Defeat Home Sorrow Story

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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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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