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Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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
I am still so na�ve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don�t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I don�t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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
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
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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