I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. β¨ The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
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- I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches. β¨ Sylvia Plath (2012). Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, p.41, Faber & Faber
- I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic. β¨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.209, Anchor
- And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. β¨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.17, Anchor
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. β¨ sylvia plath (1971). the bell jar
- I must learn more about these peopleβtry to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else i β¦ βΆ
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