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  • #1
    E.E. Cummings
    “One's not half of two; two are halves of one.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #8
    Sylvia Plath
    “Out of the ash
    I rise with my red hair
    and I eat men like air.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “I write only because
    There is a voice within me
    That will not be still”
    Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Eternity bores me,
    I never wanted it.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
    Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “I am too pure for you or anyone.

    From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have taken a pill to kill
    The thin
    Papery feeling.

    --from "Cut", written 24 October 1962”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is it the sea you hear in me?
    Its dissatisfactions?
    Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

    Love is a shadow.
    How you lie and cry after it.

    --from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition

  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. ”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #18
    Sylvia Plath
    “Character is fate.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #20
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #21
    Steve Moore
    “There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”
    Steve Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #22
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #23
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #24
    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #25
    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #26
    Robert Browning
    “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.”
    Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

  • #27
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    Lord Byron

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #29
    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    Aristotle

  • #30
    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    May Sarton



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