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“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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

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

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

“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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

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

“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

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

“What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?

From " Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day.

Then I knew what the problem was.

I needed experience.

How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

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

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Аз имам две откраднати години. Направо откраднати! И тъкмо те са най-голямата придобивка в живота ми. През тия две невъзвратими години, пропилени вдън планините, аз узнах толкова, колкото за цяло столетие не се научава в институти и библиотеки. Това преждевременно узряване ми струва родилни болки. Сякаш сама раждам себе си, такава, каквато съм сега — бронирана срещу сантименталности, илюзии и заблуди. Искам да направя един експеримент от собствения си живот: да се опитам да обърна пречките в своя полза, да превърна невъзможното във възможно. Само едно ме спъва: страхът да не бъда човек с погрешна първа стъпка в живота.”
― Блага Димитрова, Пътуване към себе си

“Запомни! Запомни! Не можеш по предварителен чертеж да построиш нито един свой ден. Колкото и да го планираш, да го монтираш, той като лава руква и те повлича в друга, непредвидена посока. Какво ти остава да правиш? Не е възможно да впрегнеш деня си с баражи. Нужна ти е друга, по-изтънчена подготовка. Да умееш да посрещнеш мига, да не го изпуснеш, да откриеш мълнийно с какви възможности е зареден той. Днешният ден ми предложи един-единствен миг и аз го изтървах.”
― Блага Димитрова, Пътуване към себе си