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“Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites on the desires of others.”
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat.”
― The Book of Embraces
― The Book of Embraces
“There is still time to veer, to sally forth, knapsack on back, for unknown hills over which…only the wind knows what lies. Shall she, shall she veer? There will be time, she says, knowing that in her beginning is her end and the seeds of destruction perhaps now dormant may even today begin sprouting malignantly within her. She turns away from action in one direction to that in another, knowing all the while that some day she must face, behind the door of her choosing, perhaps the lady, perhaps the tiger...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place.”
― The Prelude
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place.”
― The Prelude
“But I think it must be easier for a girl to marry someone she doesn’t know, because the more you get to know men, the harder it is to love them.”
― A Strangeness in My Mind
― A Strangeness in My Mind
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