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I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.
The Bell Jar
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I am still so na�ve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don�t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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