If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
SYLVIA PLATHThe truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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