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Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes (350)

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A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.
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I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?
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I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.
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Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly.
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Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.
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I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.
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If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.
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…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
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I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.
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I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.
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I think I may well be a Jew.
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The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
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For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
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Don't let the wicked city get you down.
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I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been analyzed. Instead, all I could see were question marks.
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