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  1. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
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  2. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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  3. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
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  4. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    She looked terrible, but very wise.
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  5. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."
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  6. sylvia plath _ The Bell Jar

    Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.
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  7. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, 'Do you know what a poem is, Esther?''No, what?' I would say.'A piece of dust.'Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.' And of course Buddy wouldn't have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn't sleep.
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  8. Arlaina Tibensky _ And Then Things Fall Apart

    Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.
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  9. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
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  10. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.
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  11. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
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  12. Sylvia Plath _ The Collected Poems

    Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
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