The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking.
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SYLVIA PLATH I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make... SYLVIA PLATH I think I may well be a Jew. SYLVIA PLATH With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is li... SYLVIA PLATH Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s he... SYLVIA PLATH There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu... SYLVIA PLATH I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de... SYLVIA PLATH The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther... SYLVIA PLATH I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too clo... SYLVIA PLATH I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. SYLVIA PLATH But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn... SYLVIA PLATH I felt wise and cynical as all hell. SYLVIA PLATH I was supposed to be having the time of my life. SYLVIA PLATH That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu... SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. SYLVIA PLATH When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photogr... SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ... SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ... SYLVIA PLATH My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ... SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the ... SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull. SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you? SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy? SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea... SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but... SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki... SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega... SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ... SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m... SYLVIA PLATH