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Know Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- You know what lies are for.
- We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.
- Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as…
- There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay…
- I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
- In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of…
- I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
- What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all…
- Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
- I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that…
- From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much…
- I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
- I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
- Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this…
- I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary…
- I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem…
- Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease…
- But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling…
- I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I…
- The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.
- But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…?
- How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and…
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