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"... What is my life for and what I am going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want; I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
Jun 06, 2025 01:24AM
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Alexandrine
Alexandrine is on page 94 of 732
"Good-bye, Katherine, with you thick glasses, and the one eye that looks at you sideways and the other that stares at you head on. Good-bye to your querulous voice and crabbed caviling which hides only, as I know, a deep and pathetic loneliness. Born of lack of your own kind, born of no one to talk to... (...)"

And she keeps roasting her for several lines
I've never seen someone insult someone else so beautifully
Aug 04, 2025 01:18PM
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath


Alexandrine
Alexandrine is on page 82 of 732
“Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. (...) Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”
Jun 17, 2025 09:40AM
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath


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