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Sylvia Plath quotes

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“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat...” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“If you love her, . . . you'll love somebody else someday.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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