Sylvia Plath

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“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” - Sylvia Plath

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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.” - Sylvia Plath

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“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.” - Sylvia Plath

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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

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“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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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.” - Sylvia Plath

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“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.” - Sylvia Plath

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“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” - Sylvia Plath

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“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.” - Sylvia Plath

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“I am a garden of black and red agonies.” - Sylvia Plath

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“I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.” - Sylvia Plath

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“How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.” - Sylvia Plath

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“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell.” - Sylvia Plath

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“Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.” - Sylvia Plath