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title: "12 Gone Quotes By Sylvia Plath"
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> [I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-had-decided-i-would-put-off-the-novel-until-i-had-gone-to-europe/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-had-been-alone-more-than-i-could-have-been-had-i-gone-by-myself/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/august-rain-the-best-of-the-summer-gone-and-the-new-fall-not-yet-born/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/when-you-give-someone-your-whole-heart-and-he-doesn-t-want-it-you/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-decided-i-would-put-off-the-novel-until-i-had-gone-to-europe-and-2/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/what-i-want-back-is-what-i-was-before-the-bed-before-the-knife-before/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-am-gone-quite-mad-with-the-knowledge-of-accepting-the-overwhelming/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/here-i-am-a-bundle-of-past-recollections-and-future-dreams-knotted-up/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/we-are-not-what-we-might-be-what-we-are-outlaws-all-extrapolation/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/antoine-st-exupery-once-mourned-the-loss-of-a-man-and-the-secret/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/nothing-is-real-except-the-present-and-already-i-feel-the-weight-of/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/with-me-the-present-is-forever-and-forever-is-always-shifting-flowing/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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## Other authors on Gone

## More by Sylvia Plath

> [“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer-the-summer-they-electrocuted-the/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-love-life-but-it-is-hard-and-i-have-so-much-so-very-much-to-learn/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/these-are-my-hands-my-knees-i-may-be-skin-and-bone-nevertheless-i-am/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/sure-i-m-dramatic-and-sloppily-semi-cynical-and-semi-sentimental-but/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/people-were-made-of-nothing-so-much-as-dust-and-i-couldn-t-see-that/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-couldn-t-stand-the-idea-of-a-woman-having-to-have-a-single-pure/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-the-gooseflesh-on-my-skin-i-did-not-know-what-made-it-i-was-not/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-to-live-my-life-and-it-is-the-only-one-i-ll-ever-have/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-city-had-faded-my-tan-though-i-looked-yellow-as-a-chinaman/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/joy-show-joy-enjoy-then-others-will-be-joyful/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/a-million-years-of-evolution-eric-said-bitterly-and-what-are-we/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-stitched-life-into-me-like-a-rare-organ-from-three-women-a/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-is-so-much-safer-not-to-feel-not-to-let-the-world-touch-me/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer, To our bower at the lily root. Overhead the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/flute-notes-from-a-reedy-pond-now-coldness-comes-sifting-down-layer/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

> [“The most saddening thing is to admit that I am not in love. I can only love (if that means self denial - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-most-saddening-thing-is-to-admit-that-i-am-not-in-love-i-can-only/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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