The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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.
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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