If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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 felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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 am not cruel, only truthful.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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 want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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