

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar

“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.”
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only the naked fear, the urge of self-preservation. I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralysed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought. I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going—and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions. I long for a noble escape from freedom—I am weak, tired, in revolt from the strong constructive humanitarian faith which presupposes a healthy, active intellect and will. There is nowhere to go.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms

“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
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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