Sylvia Plath

United States
27 Oct 1932 // 11 Feb 1963
Poet / Novelist

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I don�t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

The Bell Jar
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

The Bell Jar
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� they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

The Bell Jar
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