December 2011
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“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“As we become polished, so do we become hardened and guilty of accepting eating,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I must learn more about these people-try to understand them, put myself in their...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn’t in that skin or the thin blue pulse...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Is there no way out of the mind?”
– Sylvia Plath
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“If you love her,” I said, “you’ll love somebody else someday.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“I am still so naive; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please,...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“She had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be...”
– Sylvia Plath, Tulips
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“How we need another soul to cling to.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be...”
– Sylvia Plath
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Black lake, black boat, two black, cut-paper people.
Where do the black trees go that drink here?
Their shadows must cover Canada.
A little light is filtering from the water flowers.
Their leaves do not wish us to hurry:
They are round and flat and full of dark advice.
Cold worlds shake from the oar.
The spirit of blackness is in us, it is in the fishes.
A snag is lifting a valedictory, pale...
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“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I do not know who I am, where I am going—and I am the one who has to decide the...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
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“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
– Sylvia Plath
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“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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