

“I am myself. That is not enough.”
― The Collected Poems
― The Collected Poems

“I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding on, afraid that the blank hell in back of my eyes will break through, spewing forth like a dark pestilence; afraid that the disease which eats away the pith of my body with merciless impersonality will break forth in obvious sores and warts, screaming "Traitor, sinner, imposter.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Not being perfect hurts.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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