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Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
24 quotes
Quotes
- “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never t...”
- “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me....”
- “I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfi...”
- “How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, an...”
- “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramat...”
- “All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years a...”
- “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter—...”
- “Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other si...”
- “I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no ...”
- “Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also m...”
- “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to impr...”
- “How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: ...”
- “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could...”
- “I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. Yo...”
- “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricochetin...”
- “I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
- “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
- “But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
- “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
- “I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
- “I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”
- “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
- “Is anyone anywhere happy?”
- “God, who am I?”