Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
SYLVIA PLATHIf the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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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