“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.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
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“You were doing fine," a familiar voice informed my ear, "until that man stepped into your path.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“How we need another soul to cling to.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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